March/April 2026

Seven private foundations have forged a new partnership to support literary arts organizations amidst an increasingly precarious funding landscape. 

Ahead of this year’s Independent Bookstore Day, a look back at last year’s controversy when Amazon surprised indie stores with a sale of its own.

The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Night Owl by Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Frog: And Other Essays by Anne Fadiman.

Boa Editions celebrates a half century of independent publishing and releases a previously unpublished collection of Lucille Clifton’s poetry.

Founded in 2012 and now based in Minneapolis, Trio House Press publishes twelve books of poetry and nonfiction annually and aims for its titles to build empathy and understanding. 

The prose writer Mandy-Suzanne Wong highlights journals that have published some of her surprising, emotive essays on mollusks including Digging Press Journal and Black Warrior Review.

A new exhibition at the Center for Book Arts in New York City focuses on Isidore Isou and the postwar, avant-garde artistic movement he spearheaded in France.

The new executive director of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) discusses the role of translation in the literary landscape and exciting upcoming initiatives at ALTA.

Write a series of formal poems to reflect on a complicated aspect of your life, a story in which you pose as the recipient of letters from a nonhuman character, or a hybrid essay that incorporates elements of memoir and criticism.

A novelist explores the decision to name real places in fiction, the way maps circumscribe those places, how locales heavily defined by tourism are susceptible to those projections, and what it means to push against those expectations.

The author of Last Psalm at Sea Level considers the different shapes of language through a reflection on curating Deaf art and signed literature for programming at the Guggenheim Museum.