Sonali Deraniyagala calls Sharma’s semi-autobiographical novel “deeply unnerving and gorgeously tender at its core.” Read the New York Times Sunday Book Review here.

Meis explores the passage of time in cinema from an 1896 Lumiére Brothers film to Richard Linklater’s 2014 Boyhood for The Smart Set.

The Civil War era trilogy “goes this way and that as it examines what it means to be free, and what it means to be true.” Read The Boston Globe review here.

Mackey recognized for his recent work Outer Pradesh. He joins a list of luminaries to recieve the prize including Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, E.E. Cummings, and Marianne Moore.

Blackwood’s latest novel is “full of remembrance…literary invention…even grace.” Read the review here. 

Callaghan recognized for her latest play Everything You Touch, her "lushly written dark comedy." Read the LA Times review here. 

Read The WSJ’s profile of Danai Gurira on her dual roles as a playwright and television actress, and on the opening of Familiar in February at Yale Repertory Theatre. 

The generous prize, given to an unproduced play of "social relevance" will support the production of Joseph’s play Guards at the Taj to premiere in May 2015 at Atlantic Theater Company.

BBC Culture calls Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain, and The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen some of the 12 greatest novels of the 21^st century! See all 12 titles here.

The National Book Critics Circle named King to the list for her “taut, witty, fiercely intelligent” 2014 novel Euphoria (Grove/Atlantic).