In The Paris Review, new fiction by Davis is a story of strange coincidences.

On Financial Times, a new story by Davis is narrated by an older woman reflecting on the tornado warnings, pecans, and wild raccoons she encounters on a trip to Texas.

In The Paris Review, new fiction by Freudenberger is a story of strange neighbors and Brooklyn-grown pineapples.

Hayes talks about using failed paintings as canvases for new work and what draws him to creating portraits of musical icons like James Brown and Nina Simone.

On KCET, Waldie delves into the history of efforts to combat the "cold white terror" of snow in 1900s Californian orange groves.

In Offutt's Virginia Quarterly Review fiction, childhood memories of a bullied classmate provoke a sense of impending doom for a soon-to-be father.

On Edge, Goldstein dissects consequences of the science and mathematics gender gap.

Johnson discusses learning to trust his obsessions and and what scares him the most as a fiction writer.

Artforum deems Koestenbaum’s latest “wholly the product of an intense, untethered mind” and “formally exotic and profound.”

The Times proclaims that McManus’s latest collection of stories about Southern con artists, teenage Satanists, and more is “arresting but tender” and “bold and ingenious.”