Poet Tom Sleigh calls Donovan's collection of essays about ruin and redemption "unparalleled for their speculative reach and grasp of physical detail."

The Rumpus calls Meis's latest, a collection of unorthodox obituaries for figures such as Osama bin Laden and David Foster Wallace, "an impassioning read."  

The Los Angeles Review of Books declares that, when reading Core's collection of stories based in New York City, "one gets an otherworldly sensation."

Publishers Weekly dubs Ryan's first novel, a detective story set in California's entertainment industry, "a really fun thrill ride."

Whitehead's novel explores the journey of one young slave as she travels on a harrowing, state-by-state flight out of a cotton plantation in Georgia in the Antebellum South. The Boston Globe deems The Underground Railroad "a fully realized masterpiece."

The Christian Science Monitor praises Pierpont's "dazzling prose" in this collection of portraits of American artists and innovators, and The Washington Post dubs her blend of biography and criticism "ingenious."