Hyperallergic writes that Jess’s “profound” collection “takes up the challenge of writing about the history of black musical performance in the US, dwells in it, breaks it apart, rearranges it — and encourages us to do the same.”

On Poetry Foundation, John Keene makes the case for more translations of black authors into English, arguing that “the more voices we open our ears to, read and hear – the less likely we are to misunderstand.”

An estimated 69,000 people have been killed in Peru's internal conflict. On Radio Ambulante, Daniel Alarcón talks to the son of two of them.

On the 25th anniversary of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, Slate dissects why the play is "as crucial as ever." 

Gibson, who was formerly a senior writer for House of Cards, will share showrunner duties with fellow writer Frank Pugliese for the Netflix drama's fifth season. 

TheaterMania declares that Hunter’s latest play, an exploration of the effects of religious camp on a group of adult friends, “elevates his genre to new levels of emotional heights.”

Heathcock won the $5,000 award, given every three years as a reward for “talent, creativity, and perseverance,” for a second time. 

Smith discusses working across multiple genres, David Bowie’s death, and why “memoir writing is collecting things that will only make sense in hindsight.” 

LaValle, along with fellow writers Laird Barron and Paul Tremblay, talks to The Wall Street Journal podcast about Lovecraft’s racism and real-life horror. 

In T Magazine, Vuong responds to Rainer Maria Rilke’s famous call “You must change your life” by reflecting, “Suppose you do change your life./ & the body is more than/ a portion of night.”