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.
Los Angeles Times
Review of Eileen Myles’ Pathetic Literature anthology: “In general poems are pathetic. Really literature is pathetic. Ask anyone who doesn’t care about literature.”