The Written Image: Heaven’s Vault

Heaven’s Vault, a video game by inkle, requires players to translate the runes of an ancient language.
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Heaven’s Vault, a video game by inkle, requires players to translate the runes of an ancient language.
Poet and journalist Alissa Quart is bringing documentary poetry to major media outlets.
The author on five journals that published pieces from her story collection, Moon Trees and Other Orphans.
In a tiny bookshop in London, writer A. N. Devers spotlights women’s writing by only stocking rare books and modern first editions by female authors.
Manuel Muñoz, the new director of the MFA program at the University of Arizona, discusses his new role, healthy creative environments, and common missteps he sees in applications.
The nation’s oldest academic center dedicated to preserving Black poetry celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary.
The Merwin Conservancy will become the official owner and steward of the garden that poet W. S. Merwin nurtured for more than forty years.
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat and Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison.
The University of Cincinnati Press imprint publishes books of poetry and fiction that continue the successes of its affiliated literary journal, the Cincinnati Review.
The poet discusses the journals that published pieces from her sixth collection, Nightshade.
Publishing insiders weigh in on the challenges facing the U.S. bookstore chain, which was sold to a hedge fund in June for $683 million.
The essayist on the journals that published essays from her debut collection, When You Learn the Alphabet.
The small press becomes the newest imprint of the University of Nebraska Press.
A roundup of four new anthologies, including Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers edited by Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton.
In collaboration with Narrative 4, the House of SpeakEasy’s bookmobile will travel from New York City to New Orleans and give books to schools, prisons, and libraries along the way.
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead and Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn.
Alice Quinn on her eighteen years as the executive director of the Poetry Society of America.
The ten-year-old press publishes full-length poetry collections and chapbooks dedicated to the “values that make poetry timeless.”
Writers debate the merits of an award for a fictional thriller that does not feature violence toward women.
Copies of Joe Sacksteder’s story collection, Make/Shift, have been fashioned into a couture dress.
Novelist Jonathan Lethem handpicks his favorite forgotten books for reissue in a series published by Pushcart Press.
Funded by novelist Charles Frazier, the Cold Mountain series will highlight new literary fiction from the South.
The Kansas City, Missouri–based independent press approaches its fiftieth anniversary with plans to launch a chapbook competition in 2020.
A pair of English singer-songwriters perform literature-inspired music in bookstores across the United States.
A Houston artist turns outdated manuals, phone books, and encyclopedias into visually striking sculptures.