July/August 2026

Spearheaded by Ohio Humanities and Literary Cleveland, a yearlong commemoration of Toni Morrison’s oeuvre is underway, featuring statewide, national, and virtual events.

The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including If You Love That Lady by Maya C. Popa and Without Terminus by chaun webster.

The Center for the Art of Translation will move into a new brick-and-mortar, three-story cultural space in 2027, just blocks from the legendary City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.

Undaunted by the emergent technology, librarians reflect on the need for AI literacy and the undeniably human components of their job.

Founded in 2013 by Greg Wolfe and now based in Seattle, Slant Books takes up Emily Dickinson’s encouragement to her reader: “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”

The fiction writer Aamina Ahmad highlights journals that have published her short stories, narratives “interested in the way contemporary Pakistani society functions,” and “the pressures it exerts on ordinary people.”

An artist transforms library checkout cards into handmade odes to literary works with illustrations in gouache.

Daniel Simon, the editor in chief of World Literature Today, discusses how literature can promote cross-cultural dialogue and how the journal has evolved ahead of its centennial. 

Write a poem that explores memories of the end of summer, a story that features a character working on a project about a person’s biography, or a travel journal with poetic observations of a singular moment or image in time.

A fiction writer considers how long, or short, any given narrative needs to be, and in the process finds a new appreciation for an often-neglected form: the novella.

Calling on June Jordan and E. L. Doctorow, Emily Dickinson and Tupac Shakur, an acclaimed poet and nonfiction writer parses how the past is ever-present, and how our setting becomes our writing.