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Sean Penn's the author of a recently published novel called Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff. The novel ends with a poem that, at Broadly, Sara David writes: "is a meandering,...

Tobe Damit interviews Gerard Malanga, "one of the most innovative, inspired, active and versatile artists," for his blog, Loud Alien Noize. Malanga's 2017 book, Whisper Sweet Nothings & Other Poems (Bottle of Smoke Press), may...

As part of the "Icons" profile series at ARTnews, Andy Battaglia looks at the "gestation of a formidable thinker"–one Fred Moten–and his "evolution as a kind of antiacademic iconoclast." "His current...

Electronic music scholar Geeta Dayal contributes a welcome assessment of science fiction author and poet Ursula K. Le Guin's 1980s foray into electronica, Music and Poetry of the Kesh, to the...

New York Times style section publishes a conversation between novelist Mary Gordon and "British actor-politician" Glenda Jackson in which the two discuss theater, feminism, and poetry, specifically the worlds of Emily Dickinson and...

In the new issue of Oprah Magazine, Tracy K. Smith presents six recent poetry collections by black Americans that she feels engage the "urgent enterprise of making sense of our present...

Peter Mishler's series of interviews with contemporary poets continues with Wendy Xu, author of Phrasis (Fence, 2017). Much of their conversation contends with "the impossible complexity of immigrant love." "My...

At The Guardian, Robin Robertson's The Long Take is the subject of a deep investigation by John Banville. Banville writes that The Long Take has an "epical feel" and that...

Kyla Marshell interviews Khadijah Queen for the weekly interview series at PEN America, "The Pen Ten." "Is there such a thing as 'the writer’s identity?'" asks Marshell to start. Queen responds: I...