Li is the winner of the Sunday Times Short Fiction Prize for her short story, “The Sheltered Woman.”

Brown is the recipient of the award for gay poetry from Publishing Triangle for his collection The New Testament. 

Sayrafiezadeh on reunions, fathers, sons, and alphabet avenues in The New York Times.  

Congratulations to Stephen Adly Guirgis, winner of the Drama Pulitzer for Between Riverside and Crazy. Read the New York Times review here.

Read the recent Guggenheim winner’s poem on grits, bacon bits, and Giuliani, in the Spring 2015 issue of The Oxford American. 

Batuman explores whether to grapple with or gloss racism in historical literature at The New Yorker.

Davis on learning to read Norwegian and on the possibility of writing at the end of world in LitHub. 

Batuman on the controversy over how to classify the ancient dinosaur in The New Yorker.

Lucas Hnath, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Anthony Marra, Jeffery Renard Allen, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Akhil Sharma, and Cate Marvin are among the 173 writers, artists, and scholars who received the prestigious prizes.

Chiasson discusses Langdon Hammer’s illumination of the poet’s life in The New Yorker.