Black News
Deesha Philyaw sits down to discuss her debut novel: “I was endlessly curious about church women and the position that the church puts them in.”
NYT
Claudia Rankine’s TRIAGE – her first work of fiction – asks how best to effect change in the world.
NY Rev of Books
In Killing Spree, Jorie Graham pursues an essentially ethical impulse to find a true language for the evil in the world.
NY Rev of Books
Read Rowan Ricardo Phillips’ new poem “The Nightjar:”The bird wins by saying nothing,/Which is inevitable and enough.
Center for Fiction
Nafissa Thompson-Spires’ debut novel The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford is long-listed for The Center for Fiction’s 2026 First Novel Prize.
BOMB Mag
Review of Fatimah Asghar’s Daughter of the Mountains, “simultaneously expansive and intimate and, like the mountain ranges it exalts, simply breathtaking.”
Haymarket Books
Deesha Philyaw, Camille Dungy, Mahogany L. Browne, and others included in the forthcoming anthology Black Women Writers at Work in the 21st Century.
BBC Music
Surrealist blues poet and musician aja monet performs a live version of her track ‘elsewhere’ for Later with Jools Holland from her upcoming album the color of rain.
Pulitzer Prizes
Congratulations to all 2026 Pulitzer Prize finalists – especially Blue Flower Artists Torrey Peters and Douglas Kearney!
Elle
Get an exclusive first look at Deesha Philyaw’s highly anticipated debut novel The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman.