"Our skin is never pierced and yet stories break the barrier and infect us regardless." Ben Marcus's introduction to the New American Stories anthology, published by Vintage on July 21, is a gorgeous ode to the power of story.

Michael Cadden, Lewis Center chair, says Smith “embodies everything that is best about the arts at Princeton.”

Jake Orbison writes that through “the tight scope of his scholarship and lyric observation…heaven becomes something new” in Phillips’s poems. 

Poems by the 2013 and 1990 Whiting winners included in the Summer issue. Read an excerpt of Nurkse’s work online. 

Alexi Soloski writes in The New York Times that Washburn’s latest play at Soho Rep is part farce, part workplace drama, and part melancholy meditation on theater.

Laura Pritchett writes of the late Haruf’s mentorship, generosity, and humility at Literary Hub.

Chee questions the convention of prizing youth in literary writing, asking, “precocity or sagacity?”

Called “one of the consummate story makers of our day” by award judge Alan Cheuse, Eisenberg has published six story collections over the course of her career. 

Renard Allen discusses the evolution of his writing, the legacy of American slavery, and his most recent novel, Song of the Shank.