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Fariha Róisín on the debut novel that took her eighteen years to write; the Los Angeles Public Library system adapts to the pandemic era; Nicole Dennis-Benn celebrates the work of Lambda Literary; and other stories.
The author of Each of Us Killers shares a manifesto for literary criticism.
Artist Relief has distributed more than $13.5 million to creatives; the Los Angeles Times Book Club hosts “Black Poets in a Time of Unrest”; Anja Kampmann reflects on the invisible world of oil rig workers; and other stories.
Jackie Wang’s The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us From the Void, forthcoming from Nightboat Books on January 26, 2021.
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop pays tribute to Kimarlee Nguyen; Hari Kunzru discusses the precarity of democracy in America; Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf to serve as senior director of literary programs at PEN America; and other stories.
Literary Hub compiles a “list-of-lists” for fall books; Jenny Bhatt shares her path to writing; Brian Dillon close reads Joan Didion’s Vogue photo captions; and other stories.
Poets Gwendolyn Baxley and Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz share new poems for Black life; Halle Butler talks to the Guardian on making art under capitalism; Tim Parks compares the activities of writing and translating; and other stories.
“We are all authors. Let us acknowledge everyone.” —Juan Felipe Herrera, author of Every Day We Get More Illegal
The New York Times profiles publishing powerhouse Madeline McIntosh; Dan Chiasson reviews new works by Henri Cole and Eduardo C. Corral; Niloufar Talebi debuts list of essential Iranian books; and other stories.
The author of Each of Us Killers explains why reading and writing are forms of translation.
