In the latest novel from horror-master LaValle, new father Apollo Kagwa navigates the dark corners of NYC in a world where “the wildness had only begun.” 

On The Daily Beast, writer Jeremy Kryt remembers his former teacher’s devotion to reportage, and shares some of the writing advice that Johnson gave him. 

In the New Yorker, writer David Means remembers his experience in Denis Johnson’s class at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. “I felt,” he writes, “in the immediate presence of humility.”

Dwight Garner praises Lacey’s “intricately detailed” world, and declares that Lacey is “the real thing, and in The Answers she takes full command of her powers.”

Jackson discusses the implications of the increasing role of technology in our lives, and why he believes that “if you want to get to know a people, you look at the poems they’ve written.” 

Williams talks about how "molecules of memory" figure into his poems and trying to inspire hopefulness. 

In Poetry magazine, a new poem by Reeves depicts violent acts committed against black Americans, and asks, “Let’s find us another theory of light. Or darkness.”

LaValle discusses his latest project, the Frankenstein-inspired comic book series Destroyer, and how comics enable him to create monsters that prose can’t. 

On Glamour, Greenidge reflects on the media’s reluctance to explore black female depression, writing “Everywhere we look, black people—especially black women—are expected (or misinterpreted) by both white people and people of color to be superhuman.”

VICE features an excerpt from Lacey’s latest novel, The Answers, about a woman with a mysterious ailment who participates in a romantic experiment with a rich actor. “What a danger it is to love,” Lacey's narrator muses, “how it warps a person from the inside, changes all the locks and loses all the keys.”