Article Archive: Feature

Essays by debut authors Hillary Behrman, Radha Lin Chaddah, John Fadely, Shanda McManus, and Judy Sandler as well as excerpts from their books.

Essays by debut authors Nita Noveno, Phill Branch, Megan O’Grady, Joseph Trinidad, and Elena Dudum, as well as excerpts from their books.

The third novel by Min Jin Lee, American Hagwon, is an epic story of families, schools, and societal change, offering its readers a deeply personal education in the pressures, passions, and pulses of the human heart.

In Lift Every Voice, Phillip B. Williams explores the devastating effects of avoiding grief, and sitting with that feeling, more than two decades after his father’s death, is what allowed him to finally mourn and eventually make his art.

For over forty years Julia Alvarez has told stories that have established hers among the biggest names in contemporary literature. A new book, Visitations, offers a personal, poignant look back while proving she’s nowhere near finished.

T Kira Māhealani Madden’s new novel, Whidbey, asks challenging questions about how we as a society treat and talk about both the survivors and perpetrators of sexual abuse.

In her latest poetry collection, The Natural Order of Things, out now from Graywolf Press, Donika Kelly celebrates joy as a simple yet radical means of resisting despair. 

Essays by debut authors Sarah Aziza, Erika J. Simpson, Julian Brave NoiseCat, Amanda Hess, and Samina Najmi as well as excerpts from their books. 

An executive editor at Scribner, previously a senior editor at Grove Atlantic, Katie Raissian talks about learning to be fearless, what grabs her in a query, and the art of publishing books.