In her "Catalan Paradox" series for the LA Review of Books, Van der Vliet Oloomi talks to Mary Ann Newman about why she first started learning Catalan, why translation is "the most radical form of reading," and more. 

"Despite — or even because of — his awareness of suffering, he does not simply offer us joy," writes the journal of Kaminsky's latest collection. "He demands it from us."

"Griff was all of them in one black body that night in the ring, and all of them when the white men took him out back to those two iron rings." Whitehead's upcoming novel, The Nickel Boys, about two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida, is excerpted in The New Yorker.

In the New Yorker, Whiting winner Colson Whitehead talks about what drew him to the subject for his upcoming novel The Nickel Boys, how much of the real story he used in his book, and more.

On ESPNW, Glock writes about two of the women who inspired her as a teen, explaining, "These were not women who asked for permission. Who valued manners above passion. These were women lit from within by fires and furies." 

"I’m hard to offend and I don’t take offense at any adjectives. The noun is where it’s at! And the verb. Adjectives are seasoning, not things that bother me," Hayes explains. He delves into other topics including making art in the Trump era and the need for universities to expand with culture.

In the New Yorker, Cantú reflects on what the border wall means for American myth. "Corrective histories reveal the gruesome truths we have long been made to look away from," he writes, "but they rarely show how violence is internalized by its victims." 

The Whiting Foundation regrets the passing of accomplished poet Linda Gregg, Whiting 1985, a poet who "use[d] the seen world as a gateway to the richness of inner life." (Tracy K. Smith, The New York Times)