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At The Intercept, Eve. L. Ewing visits Jeremy Scahill to discuss her hometown, Chicago, and the projections imposed on it every election cycle. As Ewing explains, "basically the way I...

Today at Los Angeles Review of Books, Renee Gladman's Houses of Ravicka (Dorothy, 2017)–the third book in a series set in the imaginary city-state of Ravicka–is given a close read by writer and...

Visit the New York Times to learn what United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith is reading these days. In her appearance for NYT's "By the Book" series, Smith shares the names of...

At Pacific Standard, Rebecca Stoner checks out the latest collection of poetry by Daniel Borzutsky, Lake Michigan (University of Pittsburgh, 2018), "his latest in a series that explores the underbelly...

Members of Disabled and Deaf Uprising, "an anonymous collective of writers," describe their experiences at this year's AWP, which took place in Tampa, Florida earlier this month. As the group explains:...

Given the average lifespan, I know that some books I will simply never get to read. This is understating it—I will not come remotely close to reading most books already...

Late last night, Congress passed a spending bill that averted a government shutdown (which Trump has now signed), and in greater news, they have allocated in said bill "an INCREASE...

For Poetry Society of America's occasional "In Their Own Words," poet Samuel Solomon writes about feelings, and "Feelings," a poem from his book, Special Subcommittee (Commune Editions, 2018). "What happens...

At the New York Times, Parul Sehgal reviews a new verse translation of The Bhagavad Gita by poet Amit Majmudar. Majmudar's translation, Godsong, brings to contemporary readers "the most enigmatic of religious...

It was announced yesterday that Tracy K. Smith will serve a second term as U.S. Poet Laureate, partly to "allow for long-term planning for [an] expanded rural outreach project." "My project as Poet...