Katha Pollitt "How to Really Defend Planned Parenthood"
In The New York Times, Pollitt asks “Why does the pro-choice movement so often find itself in a defensive crouch?” and tackles the issue of what pro-life support really entails.
News and Reviews
Daniel Alarcón "The Executioners of Al Salvador"
In The New Yorker, Alarcón discusses the recent violence in El Salvador and asks "Can you create policy from rage?"
Charles D'Ambrosio "By Way of a Preface"
On Pen American, D'Ambrosio writes an ode to the power of the essay.
Wayne Koestenbaum on Artforum
Koestenbaum participated in Artforum's Elastic City walking tour series by exploring Frank O'Hara's East Village.
"House of Fire" by Nell Freudenberger
In this piece from the August 2015 issue of Harper’s Magazine, Nell Freudenberger asks "Can India's Parsis survive their own success?"
"Descending A Staircase" by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
Van der Vliet Oloomi's fiction piece in the Summer 2015 issue of the Nashville Review explores the quiet magnitude of one writer's suburban reflections.
Jericho Brown, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Aracelis Girmay, and Douglas Kearney featured in The Breakbeat Poets
The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop contains work by 78 different writers and explores the connections between poetry and hip-hop.
Terrance Hayes’ How to be Drawn reviewed on NPR
Tess Taylor writes that Terrance Hayes "pits poetry against deeper confinements. He reminds us there are theories about freedom, and there's a song that says none of us are free."
William T. Volllman featured in “By the Book”
The author was interviewed about his favorite novels and reading habits in the New York Times feature.
Virginia Grise’s “Siempre Norteada” featured at the Carnaval of New Latino/a Work
“Siempre Norteada: Always Late. Always Lost” was distributed at the 2015 LTC Carnaval of New Latina/o Work at Depaul University. The festival was sponsored by The Latina/o Theatre Commons and Howlround.