Goop
Review of Akil Kumarasky’s Meet Me by the Roaring Sea, a “…mesmerizing and odd novel…haunting and beautiful.”
Peste Magazine
Read Dunya Mikhail’s poem “Friendship Snapshot” here: My friend is always busy, / so I made a new friend / of Play-Doh.
The Week
Meghan O’Rourke recommends six books on understanding pain and illness including titles by Natasha Trethewey and Susan Sontag.
The Marginalian
Haleh Liza Gafori’s Gold, a dazzling translation of a selection of Rumi’s poetry, included on this list of Favorite Books of 2022.
The Washington Post
Review of Dunya Mikhail’s latest: “In The Bird Tattoo, Iraqi women are sold as slaves.”
Wall Street Journal
Joy Harjo and the “portal to grace” in poetry; she believes that poems can give us “new ways to speak with each other.”
CBS News
Read an excerpt from Percival Everett’s latest Dr. No: “John Milton Bradley Sill aspired to be a Bond villain, the fictitious nature of James Bond notwithstanding.”
The Times
Read this review of Francine Prose’s latest nonfiction book, Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth.
The Atlantic
Read “The Squirrel” a new poem by Ellen Bass: “Humans are good at denial.”
Vox
All of the 2022 National Book Award finalists reviewed, including Jenny Xie’s The Rupture Tense and Meghan O’Rourke’s The Invisible Kingdom.