First Fiction 2022
Interviews with debut authors Leila Mottley, Tsering Yangzom Lama, Arinze Ifeakandu, Paige Clark, and Morgan Talty, as well as excerpts from their books.
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Department: Feature
Keeping the Stories: A Profile of Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s new novel, Women of Light, chronicles five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West and is imbued with her rich sense of history and pride in her own mixed ancestry: “The story of who I am is inextricably tied to this country.”
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Life Goals: A Q&A With Elif Batuman
Elif Batuman, the best-selling author of The Idiot and its sequel, Either/Or, talks to Porochista Khakpour about the new novel, being named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and what she learned on a trip to Russia and Ukraine.
Learning to Fly: A Q&A with Samantha Hunt
Samantha Hunt’s exploration of ghosts and ghost stories, The Unwritten Book: An Investigation, is haunted by a special book: Within its pages is an incomplete novel, written by her father and discovered just days after his death.
Naming the Nowhere That Language Was Stuck In: A Q&A With Solmaz Sharif
Six years after her acclaimed debut, Solmaz Sharif returns with a second poetry collection, Customs, that builds upon the poetic scrutiny she has leveled at the nature of language, forever in tension with the nature of being.
The World the Book Can Build: A Q&A with Anthony Doerr
With his new novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land, the first since the Pulitzer Prize–winning All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr has created a masterpiece of imagination that embodies the vast interconnectedness of a wounded world.
Resistance and Reclamation: Three Poets Revise the Narrative of Transracial, Transnational Adoption
Three poets discuss writing, survival, and community as Asian American adoptees.
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5 Over 50: 2021
In this online supplement to our annual print feature celebrating debut authors over the age of fifty, Jeffrey J. Higa, Ursula Pike, Megan Culhane Galbraith, Michael Kleber-Diggs, and Vinod Busjeet share excerpts from their first books.
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The New Nonfiction 2021
Essays by Lauren Hough (Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing), Brian Broome (Punch Me Up to the Gods), Lilly Dancyger (Negative Space), Ashley C. Ford (Somebody’s Daughter), and Anna Qu (Made in China).
The Field of Stories: A Q&A With Joy Harjo
In a new memoir, Poet Warrior, published by W. W. Norton in September, U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo travels the roads, rivers, and rhythms of her life, taking readers on a journey across generations.
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