In the Wall Street Journal, Klam learns to like – or at least tolerate – whiskey, a drink he had previously deemed “like old socks soaked in gasoline.” 

The new literary magazine from Platypus Press discusses the importance of naming in McCrae’s collection, writing “Shane demonstrates the way whiteness writes itself into a false sense of safety.”

“What are you demanding/ That we feel? Have you stolen something?” In a poem for The Nation, Smith interrogates the experience of being an immigrant in America.

In a new poem for The Nation, United States poet laureate Tracy K. Smith tells a story of familiar sorrow, and unexpected hope. 

In the Oxford American, Offutt writes about pre-packaged biscuits, pre-sliced bananas, and why chefs are like magicians. 

Body journal features three poems by Weiner exploring themes of intimacy, including a new translation of Goethe.

Review31 applauds the depth with which Batuman tackles her young characters, writing that her compassion helps the novel defy convention. 

In the New York Review of Books, Pinckney unpacks the life of "vagabond poet" Claude McKay, who left Jamaica for Harlem and never went back. 

Tulathimutte talks about why empathy is “overrated” in the literary community and the rhetorical tools that “make language effective.”

USA Today reviews LaValle’s modern-day fairytale about a new dad who shares too many pictures of his son on social media, calling the novel “creepily good” and giving it four out of four stars.