LA Review of Books
Review of Percival Everett‘s The Trees: “an indictment of America’s racial terrorism masquerading as police procedural and slapstick comedy.”
Publishers Weekly
Read up on U.K. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s The Owl and the Nightingale, a translation of a medieval English debate poem.
The Atlantic
Read “Needing the Dragon,” Alicia Ostriker’s new poem: “the one god in whom we say we believe / is also unbelievable.”
Entertainment Weekly
Vanessa Hua’s Forbidden City included on this list of most anticipated books of 2022.
LA Review
Review of Frank Bidart’s Against Silence: “our greatest living poet of the flesh assessing fear of flesh’s end, of desire’s flame dimming to mere flicker.”
PEN America Lit Awards
The finalists: Rajiv Mohabir, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Percival Everett, Torrey Peters, Mai Der Vang, Douglas Kearney, Phillip B. Williams!
Publishers Weekly
Chen Chen and Dawn Lundy Martin among six artists to receive a grant from the United States Artists Organization.
The Atlantic
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s poem “I Could Be a Whale Shark” included on this list of Six Poems to Bring You Comfort This Winter.
The New Yorker
Read Katha Pollitt’s new story, “Brown Furniture,” in the January print edition of The New Yorker here.
NPR
Author Bernardine Evaristo speaks with NPR about her new memoir, Manifesto, and about perseverance.