In the Boston Review, the two Whiting winners discuss art and empathy, and “bringing the lofty down to earth.”

Grice talks to the University of St. Thomas about how we overestimate animals' danger and shares his thoughts on zoos. 

The judging committee said of Kenne’s collection, “That this set of stories and novellas has not made every shortlist it’s eligible for is a travesty.”

Pollitt received the honor for her “urgent” book Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights. Established in 2007, the prize honors feminist Ernest Drinker Ballard, and has previously been given to writers like Rebecca Traister and Janet Mock.

Morgan won the award for her novel The Sport of Kings. The Kirkus Prize judges wrote that Morgan’s novel is "vaultingly ambitious, thrillingly well-written, charged with moral fervor and rueful compassion. How will this dazzling writer astonish us next time?"

The writer tells stories about his father, who was a guard at the local zoo when Johnson was growing up, and reveals why he had to quit journalism. 

In the introduction to a new collection of twentieth-century British novelist Henry Green’s work, Eisenberg reflects on the writer “not only from literary conventions but also from conventions of thought.”

In Omniverse, four new poems by McCrae are told from the perspective of a narrator who declares, “I cannot talk about the place I came from/ I do want it to exist.”

A poem by Corral in the New Republic depicts a day in the life of a U.S. border patrol agent, a man who meditates on his wife, his father, and the moment in which “in a clearing full of bottles, sneakers,/ TP rolls,/ I found a body.”

Whitehead discusses his zombie novel, Zone One, Stephen King’s influence on his work, and watching A Clockwork Orange at age ten.