Through a collection of intimate reflections and “assignments” that encourage pleasure, attentiveness, and acts of playful making, Koestenbaum enacts twenty-six ecstatic collisions between his mind and the world. "[Koestenbaum's] great and singular appeal is this fealty to his own desire and imagination," writes Parul Sehgal, in The New York Times.

Emilio, a young Guatemalan American college student, is deported and decides to make his way back home to California. It is an epic journey that takes him across the United States–Mexico border, meeting corrupt law enforcement but also new friends. Marcom's latest was named one of 2020’s most anticipated books by The Millions and Ms. Magazine.

In his latest collection, Phillips ruminates on violans and violence, on hatred, on turning forty-three, and eve on the end of existence itself. "Phillips’s latest is lyrical, imaginative, and steeped in a keen understanding of current events," writes Publishers Weekly.

Everyone who ever died is still here, and Linda can communicate with them. If you believe, she can make you hear them, too — in the thin place, the fragile boundary between our world and the other one. The New York Times writes, "Lucas Hnath is haunting Playwrights Horizons. A cunning new play, compelling and delicious."

Pulitzer-winner Guirgis's Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven is about the harrowing, humorous, and heartbreaking inner workings of a women's halfway house in New York City. Ben Brantley writes in the New York Times that Guirgis's latest is "a vibrant and expansive comic drama with heaving humanity, surging vitality and diversity! [...] I wish I had the space to describe every performance."

In Find Me, Aciman explores Sami, the father of character Elio, whom he first introduced to readers in Call Me By Your Name. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami’s plans and changes his life forever. Meanwhile, Elio has an affair in Paris and Oliver contemplates in a return trip across the Atlantic. The New York Times writes that Find Me "strikes an affectingly melancholy chord.”

Mary Ruefle's latest collection explores the act and intensity of poem-making, with the poet's usual imaginative flourishes and unique sensibility. Publishers Weekly calls the collection "a giddy, incisive ode to failure, fragility, and unknowing."

Boyer's memoir of surviving aggressive triple-negative breast cancer explores the experience of illness mediated by digital screens, the ecological costs of chemotherapy, the literary line of women writing about their illnesses, and more. Sally Rooney writes of that book: "Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experience of life itself."

Vuong's first novel is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation.