Poet Alice Notley has died at the age of seventy-nine. In the Spring 2024 issue of the Paris Review, Hannah Zeavin talked with Notley about her life and work. When asked where she thinks great poems come from, Notley tells Zeavin, “I think the . . . answer has to do with suffering, and how […]
The Authors Guild filed a class action lawsuit this week against the NEH and DOGE “for unlawfully terminating millions of dollars in committed grants from funds appropriated by Congress for the programs.” In a guest essay for the New York Times Opinion section, George Saunders responds to the Trump administration’s firing of Librarian of Congress […]
Hundreds of National Endowment for the Arts grants for publications, artists and arts organizations, and theater groups have been terminated; Trump has also proposed eliminating the NEA entirely. n+1, which lost its NEA grant, has published a letter from four senior staffers of the NEA’s literary arts office who resigned in response to the cuts. […]
McNally Jackson is starting a twice-yearly book festival, Vulture reports. The inaugural festival will take place over the course of six weeks in May and June with events at the store’s Seaport location featuring conversations between Parul Sehgal and Andrea Long Chu, Lucy Sante and Harron Walker, Hala Alyan and Sarah Aziza, and more. The […]
The Spring 2025 issue of Bookforum is out now! This edition features Lidija Haas on Shulamith Firestone’s portrayal of life with mental illness; Moira Donegan on Peter Hujar’s photobook Portraits in Life and Death; and Jane Hu on Audition, the final novel in Katie Kitamura’s translation trilogy. Also in the issue: David Velasco talks with […]
New York magazine book critic Andrea Long Chu discusses her collection of reviews and essays with Grace Byron for the Los Angeles Review of Books: “Some of the essays in Authority are polemics. I wouldn’t say the whole book is. Getting to test the mettle of an idea is, to me, part of the nature […]
Jamie Hood discusses her book Trauma Plot: A Life—which is out today—with Nicholas Russell at Defector: “I think that the reason it took me 10 years to write Trauma Plot was because rape ultimately seemed to me like a formal problem. Like, I could not figure out how to tell the fucking story.” In the […]
The spring issue of the Yale Review is out now, with contributions by Tiana Reid, Audrey Wollen, Mona Oraby, Isabella Hammad, Guadalupe Nettel, and more. On March 19th, 4Columns magazine is hosting “Manifesto,” a free event at KGB bar in New York City. The six participants—Brian Dillon, Johanna Fateman, Ciarán Finlayson, Harmony Holiday, Alex Kitnick, […]
Amulet, a new magazine “offering a fresh perspective on spirituality, religion, and mysticism for seekers and skeptics alike” has launched; Samuel Rutter is editor in chief. The first issue is online now, with essays, poetry, and fiction by Brittany Newell, K-Ming Chang, Fady Joudah, Simon Critchley, Yasmine Seale, and more. In her essay, Sheila Heti […]
This year’s Booker Prize longlist has been announced. All thirteen nominated authors have been nominated for the first time this year, and three authors are nominated for their debut books. The shortlist will be announced on April 8. Online at the Paris Review this week: Lisa Carver’s diary of an ayahuasca retreat in Peru, excerpted […]
