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Publishing executive Erika Seyfried has died; María Amparo Escandón reflects on writing the dramatic reality of Los Angeles; the fall program for National Book Foundation Presents has been unveiled; and other stories.
Rabih Alameddine amplifies the stories of Syrian refugees; Joshua Roebke accesses wonder through popular science writing; Julietta Singh describes “mothering at the end of the world”; and other stories.
T Kira Māhealani Madden considers the intimacy of nourishment; Kaveh Akbar praises uncertainty in life and in poetry; Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi discusses writing trauma; and other stories.
A “new canon” of writing on the environment and climate change; novelist Nadia Hashimi grieves the recent resurgence of the Taliban; Jesse Dorris reveals how an eBay policy change threatens queer materials; and other stories.
Dub poet Jean Breeze remembered in the New York Times; Vinod Budjeet reflects on the appeal of autobiographical fiction; GQ reports on the coveted Sally Rooney bucket hat; and other stories.
Emily Lordi writes about the Black American artists past and present who chose to move abroad; Penguin Random House will require masks for officegoers; Michael Dirda recaps his summer reading; and other stories.
Novelist and scholar Myriam J. A. Chancy mourns the damage of the recent earthquake in Haiti; the winners of this year’s American Book Awards; Literary Hub reacts to Sally Rooney’s limited publicity schedule; and other stories.
The next poet laureate of Alabama will be Ashley M. Jones; Joshua Henkin describes his drafting process; Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois picked for Oprah’s Book Club; and other stories.
Carlina Duan discusses reckoning with history; Nina MacLaughlin writes about the Sturgeon Moon; fellowship program serves young refugees in central New York; and other stories.
NPR rounds up favorite fantasy and science fiction titles; Jessica J. Lee considers the brassica; Alix Ohlin asks what caretakers take; and other stories.
