Lee discusses his complicated relationship to the word “home,” the necessity of exploring perspectives from both the East and West, and “redeeming desire.”

Powell Watts won the award for “Best Literary Debut” for her collection No One is Coming to Save Us. Other Image Award winners included director Ava DuVernay and actor Danny Glover. 

“Why won’t God-My-Mother’s wounds heal?/ Wounding myself doesn’t cauterize her wounds./ Another wound to her won’t seal her open blooms,” writes Lee, in a new poem about the meaning of words, for Poetry magazine. 

Fellow novelist Laila Lalami reflects on themes of displacement Alarcón’s new collection, and writes that “Alarcón manages to offer a fresh look at migration, the oldest story of all.”

In a conversation about books and reading, Aciman discusses hiding Dracula from his parents as a child, and the “unforgettable stateliness” of the King James Bible.  

In a starred review, Publishers Weekly praises Chee’s new collection about everything from tending to a garden to an AIDS march, writing that Chee "informs and educates readers while they’re too enraptured to notice."

"Passarello is sassy but tender; smart, angry and wondering,” writes the UK publication, praising the urgency of Passarello's collection of essays about animals. 

The Guardian highlights recently published work by Asian American writers, including Yiyun Li, Tony Tulathimutte, and Ocean Vuong, and discusses the importance of immigrant narratives and voices outside the margins.

For Harper’s, William T. Vollman interviews petroleum refinery works in the United Arab Emerates, who sleep in bunks separated by ethnicity and only agree to talk to him when they realize he is writing a book – not working for the government. 

Doty is the first recipient of the fellowship, which honors a “distinguished poet of international repute.” Professor Fran Brearton, Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University, described Doty’s acceptance of the fellowship as an “honor.”