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In ‘Earth 7,’ Novelist Deb Olin Unferth Mourns All That We’ll Lose on Earth
Deb Olin Unferth’s Earth 7 (Graywolf Press, 2026) is a love story that takes place at the end of the world. As Earth grows irreversibly inhospitable, two women — or rather, one woman and one possible robot — meet at a beach of artificial sand and fall for one another. Poetic and haunting, the novel grieves the diversity of life on our beloved planet and imagines what might happen once it’s no longer around.
In Sarah Wang’s Debut, Plastic Surgery Is More Than Skin Deep
In Sarah Wang’s debut, New Skin (Hachette, 2026), Linli reunites with her mother, Fanny, following a three-year estrangement when she hears about Fanny’s latest botched plastic surgery procedure. The book follows the mother-daughter duo as they grapple with its aftermath: first, the medical and financial difficulties, and, later, Fanny’s placement on an outlandish reality TV show where contestants try to recover from their plastic surgery addiction as fast as they can.
‘I Tend to What Didn’t Die in Me’: Rachel Eliza Griffiths on Writing After Unbearable Loss
On Rachel Eliza Griffiths’ wedding day, her closest friend, the poet Kamilah Aisha Moon, died suddenly. Almost a year later, as Griffith worked through her grief, an attack nearly killed her husband, the novelist Salman Rushdie. In her memoir The Flower Bearers (Penguin Random House, 2026), Griffith explores her deep relationships with Moon and Rushdie as well as the process of rebuilding a self in the face of trauma and loss (Bookshop; Barnes & Noble).
PEN America Speaks: How We Defended and Celebrated Free Expression The Week of October 30
Home PEN America Speaks: How We Defended and Celebrated Free Expression The Week of October 30 PEN America works tirelessly to defend free expression, support persecuted writers, and promote literary culture. Here are some of the latest ways PEN America is speaking out.
Elisabeth Houston | The PEN Ten Interview
It’s always exciting to witness how a writer or artist deepens their craft across multiple works, but it’s even more interesting to see how one character is developed across genre and medium. In Standard American English, Elisabeth Houston writes poems that center a character, baby, she’s been working with for many years in her performance art. In this book, she engages the fetishization of Blackness, mental illness, body image, sexual abuse, and other forms of power struggle.
An Interview with Prison Library Support Network
Librarianship extends far beyond library shelves, and even further beyond the covers of books. Librarians are trained to respond to curiosity. While they may not know the answer to a question, they tell us where to go in search of an answer or how to go about research towards one. But responding to the research needs of people who are incarcerated requires a bit more focused attention.
Jennifer Baker on Restorative Justice in Young Adult Fiction
Home Prison & Justice Writing Works of Justice Jennifer Baker on Restorative Justice in Young Adult Fiction How far would you go for forgiveness? This is the question stamped on the cover of Forgive Me Not (Nancy Paulsen Books / Penguin, 2023), the debut young adult novel by Jennifer Baker. The novel follows two siblings navigating the growing pains of high school and young adulthood. This comes to a head when Violetta gets drunk and gets behind the wheel of a car, killing her younger sister.
National Poetry Month Day 26: Malcolm Tariq
National Poetry Month Day 26: Malcolm Tariq Sophomore The last name of the first boy I kissed was Love. That night, he kept saying I love you and I love you. With no instruction, desire led my late coming, gave reason for lips that lie, big beautiful lips that allow one to hide in another. Je t’aime and je te veux I said to myself, whispering la langue into his ear like a dame, like slices of sweet peach, the hint of red at the burning pit.
Poem: On Sullivan’s Island
By Malcolm Tariq Selected by Naomi Shihab Nye July 2, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET At this crucial time of reckoning in American racial justice, consider Sullivan’s Island, a suburb of Charleston, S.C., once a port where an outsize number of enslaved people entered North America. Toni Morrison once noted the lack of an appropriate marker there for its heartbreaking history.
A Letter to the Professor Whose Name I Carry
Dear Dr. Rudolph P. Byrd, Scores of Brooklynites are marching on the busy street in front of my apartment. I’m watching from the window, hearing white people chant, “Whose streets? Our streets!” I’m happy to see the support for Black Lives Matter, but here in gentrified Brooklyn, I can’t help but find that funny. I recorded two minutes of it in the event that it’s useful if I ever write poems again.
The Road to Chocolate Plantation: A Poem
NOVEMBER 5, 2019 This poem will appear in the next issue of the LARB Quarterly Journal: Weather, No. 24 To receive the next issue of the LARB Quarterly Journal,become a member. ¤ The Road to Chocolate Plantation I We leave Savannah in search of searching. My foot weighs down the road for an hour until we cross over into Meridian — a journey I’ve taken before, not in this seat but following my cousin’s curious eye for history. At sixteen, I understood then what I can’t recall today.
October 2019 Exemplars: Poetry Reviews by Grace Cavalieri
Dear Readers, This is my last “Exemplars.” I’ve loved reading poetry books each and every day for my monthly column and reviewing poetry for more than seven years for the Independent. Thank you (and them) for being with me. ~ Grace Cavalieri Things come and go Then let them – Robert Creeley ***** Love and I by Fanny Howe. Graywolf Press. 80 pages. While They Sleep (Under the Bed Is Another Country) by Raquel Salas Rivera; art by Mariana Isabel Ramos Ortiz. Birds, LLC. 96 pages.
American Poetry Review - Malcolm Tariq - "Self-Portrait as George Washington’s Teeth"
an erasure of his last will and testament I, Instrument of circumstance, hold most difficult sensations from bodily infirmities fed by, bound by Negro crops. Permanent provision is alternative testimony of his attachment to me. Trust this donation vested in misconceptions, meaning the pleasure of prejudice—so desirable an object as good matter: Public mind, pregnant Country limits my Honourable body, sum object I, legal alien (I, Negro), made as evidence of desire. My private—. My share—.
Allowing Racist Symbols to Remain Standing Shows What We Are Unwilling to Change in Society
Richmond police keep members of the Tennessee based group "New Confederate State of America" separated from counter protesters, September 16, 2017, in Richmond, Virginia. The group held a protest in support of retaining the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that is located on Richmond's Monument Avenue.
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