Aria Aber, Diannely Antigua, Will Arbery, Jaquira Díaz, Andrea Lawlor, Ling Ma, Jake Skeets, Genevieve Sly Crane, Jia Tolentino, and Genya Turovskaya are recipients of 2020 Whiting Awards for their adventurous, far-reaching, and exquisitely perceptive work in drama, nonfiction, poetry, and fiction!

The two Whiting winners are part of the list of "ten most significant books published in 2019."

On BroadayBox, Yee recommends give songs to listen to before seeing her play Cambodian Rock Band, including "the song that started it all."

Koestenbaum discusses why he doesn't write about food, reading alone at restaurants, revising asemic work, and more.

For the New York Review of Books, Chiasson writes about Sir Thomas Wyatt and his foundational poem, "They Flee from Me," a work that has been "mislaid and rediscovered many times in its history."

Gander shares his thoughts on literary translation, sharing the stage with fellow poet and performer Gozo Yoshimasu, and "cultivating vulnerability as an ethical and aesthetic stance."

"Acclaimed writer on race in America" ZZ Packer is a fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs for the spring semester.

Mailhot talks about the "sacred" bookstores where she wrote Heart Berries, the emily Dickinson poem she thinks everyone should read, and how she decided to stop writing what other people wanted.

Stephen Adly Guirgis talks to America magazine about his latest play, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven, explaining of his writing process, "Instead of knowing why I was writing, I had to trust that it would be revealed, and keep going."

The New Yorker reviews Guirgis's "rough-cut gem of a new play," Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven, dubbing the playwright "a wixard at getting language to flow hot, funny, and fast."