The LA Weekly reviews Rajiv Joseph’s latest play and dubs it "funny, haunting and deeply insightful.”

In The New Yorker, Claudia Roth Pierpont details how art and Nazism divided the paths of actor-icons Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl, “two beautiful and ambitious Berliners, born just eight months apart, both bound to shape the fantasies and touch the histories of their time.” 

Book recommendation site Off the Shelf writes of Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “You’ll leave with something you hadn’t known you needed.”

In Tin House, Padgett Powell on the genius humor and teachings of his mentor and “high mortal deity,” Donald Barthelme.

Percy reviews recently released thrillers destined to make a reader’s heart palpitate.

Ruefle delves into anxiety as ingenuity, why it’s okay to forget the books you’ve read, and how an Emily Brontë novel helped save her from depression.

Laleh Khadivi and Thomas Sayers Ellis are 2016 Pushcart Prizes winners. Khadivi won the Pushcart for her story “Wanderlust” and Ellis for his poem “Vernacular Owl.”

The San Francisco Chronicle proclaims that Marra’s new collection of linked short stories, The Tsar of Love and Techno, is “nothing short of extraordinary.”

In The New Yorker, a new story by Ben Marcus, “Cold Little Bird,” explores growing tensions between a man and his suddenly emotionally distant son.

The Washington Post praises the festival, which features a new play by Sheila Callaghan,Women Laughing Alone with Salad, as "a democratic empowerment" and “extraordinary.”