What do we hold fast, what do we let go? The question, like a living being, hovers onstage in The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov. It hovers, whirls, mutters, speaks aloud,...
Marie-Helene Bertino wins a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction.
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Joseph Miranda’s Spring 2024 MELUS essay, “Hiding in John Rechy’s Closet“ wins the 2025 Katharine Newman Best Essay Prize from MELUS and an honorable mention for...
On April 8th, the Alfred A. Knopf Publishing Group featured “Bruise” from Cynthia Zarin’s Next Day as their Poem-a-Day, celebrating National Poetry Month.
Jenna Bush Hager’s April 2025 Read With Jenna pick is a tale of survival
“Heartwood” is a story about a hike gone wrong.
What would you do if you were lost on the...
The National Book Foundation today announced its annual 5 Under 35 honorees, a selection of five fiction writers under the age of 35 whose debut work promises to leave a...
Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on...
