Harriet: News & Community

For Los Angeles Review of Books, Anthony Mostrom investigates a question Charles Bukowski sought answers to in the posthumous collection, On Drinking.

Elaine Feinstein—poet, translator, playwright, and novelist—has died at 88, reports The Guardian.

"For an imagination, a curiosity, as expansive as [Leslie] Jamison’s, there can be no partitions," writes Kaveh Akbar at the Paris Review.

Dan Chiasson reviews what Fanny Howe has said will be her last book, Love and I (Graywolf, this month), for the latest issue of the New Yorker.

Deepa Bhasthi introduces readers of Hyperallergic to Sophie Seita's new book Provisional Avant-Gardes: Little Magazine Communities From Dada to Digital.

Vuong's debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, has received glowing reviews from publications near and far.

The Paris Review features an essay by Stefania Heim about her experience translating the Italian poetry of painter Giorgio de Chirico.

Yesterday, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) announced its shortlist for the National Translation Awards in both fiction and poetry categories.

Granta hosts an essay by Dorothea Lasky called "Bees as the ghost: an introduction" exploring interconnections between poetic forms, poetry communities, and the self-sustained worlds of bees.

"The Topeka School begs the question," writes Emily Temple on Ben Lerner's new novel, "is it still autofiction if you are inhabiting voices other than your own?"