Folio Prize
Congratulations to Hisham Matar, winner of the 2017 Rathbones Folio Prize for his memoir, The Return.
PBS News Hour
A segment on Juan Felipe Herrera, the power of words, and how he helps Chicago students find their voice through verse.
SF Chronicle
Review of Marie Howe’s Magdalene: We cannot turn away as she explores the erotic and spiritual aspects of love.
BBVA Foundation
Adam Zagajewski, rootlessness, and displacement – a reflection on a poet who writes to imagine a home.
Freedom Fighting
Listen as Aja Monet discusses publishing, womanhood, and her collection My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter.
LA Review of Books
Interview with Adam Zagajewski: Chance and intuition; my ideal book is between a knit structure and a chaotic ensemble.
Vogue
Dani Shapiro on her memoir Hourglass: You’re going to suffer together—as well as experience tremendous joy.
NYT Magazine
“Walking Home” A poem by Marie Howe: She said, I have never before been a soul on this earth./(It was cold. We were hungry.)
The New York Times
Review of Amber Tamblyn’s directorial debut Paint it Black: a convention-defying film about how two women react to the same loss.
The New Yorker
Ocean Vuong’s essay A Letter to My Mother That She Will Never Read: Our hands empty except for our hands.