Mansour talks about her new play, The Vagrant Trilogy, and why it’s important to her that audiences hear Arabic and “see Arabic in daily life and not just news events.”

The Times calls Offutt’s second work of fiction “dark, but deeply humane” and declares the noir novel “an achievement of spellbinding momentum and steadfast heart.”

“Forever ends. Never a moment holds/ ‘still-here,’ when sand murmurs through my fingers.” In a new poem for Poets.org, Hutchinson’s narrator muses on life and death.

The Tribune calls Wang “a visionary,” writing that her novel about a burned-out Ph.D. candidate pondering her Chinese heritage and an upcoming marriage “has crafted a narrative that manages to be both restrained and explosive.”

"It’s as though racism has always been the action and dealing with it the reaction," Pinckney reflects in his New York Review of Books piece on Ta-Nehisi Coates, Cornell West, and afro-pessimism.

In The Nation, writer J. Robert Lennon pens a moving tribute to Johnson’s life and his final collection, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden. "It wasn’t that his books failed to conform to expectations,” Lennon writes. “It was that his talent was too slippery to set them in the first place."

Jonathan Farmer discusses how the latest book differs from McCrae’s previous work, meditates on his relationship to the book as a white reader, and praises the “power” of McCrae’s poems.

The LA Review of Books writes that Pico’s latest is full of “poems that are complex yet accessible, that sound like 2018 but that have staying power long past it,” comparing the poet to Frank O’Hara.

The magazine writes that Koestenbaum’s latest collection “mixing conscious states like color” and declares that, “for Koestenbaum, art is no therapy or escape. It simply tags along, delivering beauty un-deliberated.”

In a new poem for Poetry magazine, Corral’s narrator articulates an impending death, and laments “An animal/ is prowling/ this station. It shimmies with hunger./ It shimmers/ with thirst./ To keep it away,/ I hurl my memories at it.”