Article Archive: News and Trends

More than sixty years after her passing, Zora Neale Hurston’s newly published novel, The Life of Herod the Great, reimagines archival materials and prompts reflection on the legacies of historical figures and literary objects.

The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including The World With Its Mouth Open by Zahid Rafiq and What It’s Like in Words by Eliza Moss. 

This past April, NDN Girls Book Club loaded up a big pink truck to distribute over ten thousand free books and care packages throughout the Hopi Reservation and Navajo Nation, improving accessibility to Indigenous literature.

The Center for Book Arts’s new fellowship program supports BIPOC creatives with essential resources to start a small press, planting seeds for a more diverse and equitable vision of publishing.

Led by best-selling author Lauren Groff, the Lynx Watch helps distribute books banned or challenged in the state of Florida to local readers and works with advocacy organizations to bring awareness to other threatened freedoms.

The author of the debut poetry collection Good Dress highlights a thoughtful selection of literary journals that helped shepherd her poems into the world, including Underbelly and Hopkins Review.

The executive editor of Callaloo Literary Journal, one of the most influential publications of the African diaspora, speaks about Callaloo’s future and how the journal will continue to break new ground.

For more than ten years, Meekling Press has been producing artist books, blending text and visual design to make unique literary-art objects with a playful punk sensibility.

A look at two new anthologies, including Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose From the Undocumented Diaspora, edited by the writer-activists of Undocupoets.

The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Yr Dead by Sam Sax and Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami.