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In a stunning new memoir, How to Say Babylon, Safiya Sinclair tells the story of growing up in a Rastafarian family in Jamaica, breaking free of her father’s oppressive control, and finding her own voice as a woman and poet.
Essays by debut authors Alma García (All That Rises), Bernardine “Dine” Watson (Transplant), Tommy Archuleta (Susto), Chin-Sun Lee (Upcountry), and Donna Spruijt-Metz (General Release From the Beginning of the World).
Essays by debut authors Eirinie Carson (The Dead Are Gods), Leah Myers (Thinning Blood), Andrew Leland (The Country of the Blind), Jen Soriano (Nervous), and Jami Nakamura Lin (The Night Parade).
Forty years into her illustrious career as a poet, Jane Hirshfield’s latest collection, The Asking: New and Selected Poems, expresses her simple hope for the future—that she may be granted the great fortune to write the next poem.
In his first book of prose, Dark Days: Fugitive Essays, award-winning poet Roger Reeves braids memory, theory, and close critical readings to evoke a profound vision of community, solidarity, and even joy in our present moment.
Random House executive editor and vice president Jamia Wilson talks about her passion for publishing as a craft, how being a writer informs her work as an editor, and the importance of keeping an expansive interest in books.
Interviews with debut authors Tyriek White, Ada Zhang, Mihret Sibhat, Shastri Akella, and Rebekah Bergman, along with excerpts from their books.
In her latest book, The Light Room, published by Riverhead Books, Kate Zambreno celebrates the ethical work of caregiving, the small joys of ordinary life, and an engagement with the natural world within human spaces.
Luis Alberto Urrea always knew his mother had a story; he just didn’t know how to tell it. But in researching his new novel, Good Night, Irene, he gained a deeper understanding of the person she was and the happy ending she deserved.
With roots in nature writing, environmental justice, poetry, and photography, Camille T. Dungy’s new book, Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden, delves into the personal and political act of cultivating one’s own green space.
