In Vice, Keene discusses fiction's "extraordinary capacity to create and engender and foster empathy." 

The San Francisco Chronicle praises the poet’s “compassionate heart and a keen eye” and proclaims that “Jackson has created a new poetry of praise, one that rolls musically from the outer to the inner world and back.”

The New York Times writes that “‘The Christians’ is Mr. Hnath’s most penetrating work” and dubs Hnath “one of the freshest playwriting voices to emerge in the past five years.”

The Guardian writes that “nifty experimentalist” Washburn’s reinvented epic Iphigenia in Aulis is “engrossing” and “spine-tingling.”

The Globe and Mail proclaims that Novakovitch’s latest collection of short stories is “refreshing” and “displays considerable range.”

The New York Times praises Karr’s latest work for its honesty, validation of messiness, and reassurance that it’s okay to break your delete key editing.

Kearney reads “Stick City Zazen” and discusses the seduction of Mackey’s “metaphysical and mythological” collection of poetry.

Slate deems Doty’s latest work “bountiful, arched toward beauty in a desire for solace.”

A profile of Thompson explores the writer's thoughts on jazz, Ralph Ellison, and racial injustice in America. 

Alarcón receives a PEN USA 2015 Journalism Award for “The Contestant,” his chilling piece in California Sunday Magazine about a Peruvian woman who became an overnight sensation on a game show – then disappeared.