The Irish Times writes that Mehta's latest book, an argument for immigration as a form of reparations, "demolishes xenophobia."

"Wayne’s work has legs,” library curator Tim Young said. “He has found all sorts of innovative ways to think about and discuss culture." His work joins that of other important contemporary writers - such as David Rakoff, Annie Dillard, and Terry Tempest Williams - housed at the library.

"Boyer's writing explicitly uses language as a bridge from body to body," the magazine writes of Boyer's latest, a book of memoir and criticism about her experience surviving breast cancer.

In an excerpt from her new book The Undying, featured in Harper's magazine, Boyer reflects, "There is no more tragic piece of furniture than a bed, how it falls so quickly from the place we make love to the place we might die in."

"They serve their masters most/ quickly after They have devised a plan to kill their masters," declares a new poem by McCrae featured in The Baffler.

Tupelo Quartlerly calls Kaminsky's collection "stunning," and declares that his latest work "links the ubiquity of ignorance with its destructive outcomes."

Whiting winners Tyehimba Jess, Darryl Pinckney, and ZZ Packer all contributed original work to the project, which examines the legacy of slavery in America.

"I want to make sure men know it's possible for them to have feelings and that those feelings are okay to have," Brown remarks during his interview with the magazine. "I think our world would have us believe they're not okay to have."

"I try to be generous to my characters," Gloss explains, "even the ones I know I wouldn't like if we meet in reallife [...] And I try to love them even when they're not doing loveable things."

The Whiting Foundation regrets the passing of masterful poet Jane Mead, Whiting 1992, a poet who "draws a sustaining record of the only feeling worth the struggle." (C.D. Wright)