In The New Yorker, Sharma hires a tailor in attempt to replicate the lavish, “controlling intelligence” of clothing made by British designer Davide Taub. 

For Yes! Magazine, Hayes reflects, from the perspective of a father, on the narrow American definition of masculinity.

Presented by the NAACP and NYCHA, the award honors an author who has “changed the game through writing.”

For BOMB Magazine, Lacey and fellow writer Jesse Ball devise strategies, including becoming “transcendentalist reporters,” for interviewing each other.

“Neighbour,/ I am naming you damned,” laments the narrator in Sinclair’s new poem for The Kenyon Review.

For Farrar, Straus & Giroux’s “Work in Progress” series, Morgan discusses why she doesn’t think of herself as a Southern writer and how to “protect what’s most precious in a world that wants everything.” 

For American Theatre magazine, Ruhl interviews her mother, an actor who played Peter Pan in her youth and the inspiration behind her latest play.

Franzen talks about Freud, writing mother characters, and why, when it comes to writing based on personal experience, “your own life is not the stuff of fiction.”

“Which parts of your body have never been touched,/ I wanted to ask,” wonders Hayes’s narrator, in a poem for The New Yorker about how one family’s dinner illuminates a truth of human nature.

Row’s eleven-year-old narrator has a late night conversation with a talking owl, in new fiction for N+1.