On Poetry Foundation’s website, Brown muses on the themes of eternal life in Langston Hughes’s work and why poems allow the opportunity “to try communicating with the dead and, hopefully, with those who have yet to live.”

Jess reads a new poem, “Sissieretta Jones,” of which Poetry editor Don Share declares: “It’s not making a statement. It is a statement."

Chee explains how his mother’s childhood influenced The Queen of the Night and what he and the novel’s main character, a 19^th-century diva opera singer, have in common.

Critic James Wood praises the book’s “pleasingly spry” tone and deems it “full of wondrous things.”

In The New York Times, Tom Bissell muses on David Foster Wallace’s perpetual relevance and why, with Infinite Jest, Foster Wallace "didn’t name a condition. He created one."

In The New Yorker, Frazier covers Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s recent visit to her hometown, the Bronx.

In The New Yorker, Chiasson reviews the sixteenth collection by "Phi Beta Kappa poet of doomsday" Frederick Seidel.

"I wanted to eat and so I learned to sing": Guernica and PEN’s flash fiction series features an excerpt from Chee’s new novel, Queen of the Night.

In The New Yorker, Batuman writes about the complicated comfort of wearing a headscarf in modern Turkey.

Chee discusses the importance of social media for LGBTQ writers and writers of color and why composing his first novel “was as if I’d cornered myself to force the truth out of me."