Ploughshares delves into themes of distance in Aciman’s work, musing “the written word makes an optimal channel for Aciman’s elsewhere-ness: for who more than a reader accesses life from a remove?”

The Boston Globe writes that Jess’s collection is “one of the most inventive, intensive poetic undertakings of the past decade.”

For the month of August, the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company will perform Seven Guitars at Wilson’s childhood home in Pittsburg.

Library Journal says Whitehead’s latest is “highly recommended,” and declares that the historical fiction novel “raises the bar for fiction addressing slavery.”

The award, presented by the Brooklyn Public Library, honors a writer who has lived in Brooklyn, portrayed the borough in their work or addressed themes relevant to its life and culture. LaValle is nominated in the Fiction category for his sci-fi novella, The Ballad of Black Tom.

 In BOMB Magazine, a story from Core’s collection When Watched explores quiet moments of a friendship between two women who contemplate the freedom of old age and the private lives of married men they sleep with. 

Mask Magazine praises Core’s characters, and writes “her stories skip like pebbles, held intact by their emotional gravity and buoyed by the moving grace of small, playful ripples.”

With fellow writers Fenton Johnson and Amber Keyser, Mark Doty discusses queer representation in literature and why now “what has felt like an embattled identity feels more like a fact of life.”

In BOMB Magazine, poet Ariana Reines praises Wright’s poems as “acts of justice” and writes of their imagery “nowhere in poetry have I seen such skies.”

“Some days, when I catch my reflection in a mirror,/ I think, Someone has hurt this animal,” muses Corral in a new poem for the 92^nd Street Y's "Words We Live In" series.