Foreign Policy awarded Parks with the honor for her work "bringing theater audiences on an odyssey” and cited the importance of her play Father Comes Home from the Wars.

The Chicago Tribune dubs Koestenbaum’s latest collection of poetry inspired by journal entries “poignant,” “visceral,” and “entirely unpretentious.”

In The Paris Review, the latest column in Rowan Ricardo Phillips's basketball column explores the New York Knicks’s most recent loss through the lens of Milton’s Paradise Lost and Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry.

Pancake discusses the “hurt and beauty” of her hometown in West Virginia and why politics should never be a novel’s priority.

Callaghan and Joseph, who previously participated in the program as mentees, will guide two early-career playwrights as their work is produced at Cherry Lane Theatre.

For Granta’s “Betrayal” issue, Aciman discusses why themes of self-deception make the best stories.

Sharma’s novel Family Life was shortlisted for the prize for South Asian Literature.

The Independent declares that, in The Wild Swan, the legacies of fairy tales are safe in Cunningham’s  “sensitive and skillful hands.”

The Los Angeles Review of Books describes Powell’s latest collection as “a series of insane sprints across the dark side of the imagination” and praises the book’s “bizarre and brilliant sentences.”

In The Guardian, Mehta reflects on the lack of affordable housing in urban areas and asks “Can a city be too successful for its own good?”