Born in Iowa and a longtime St. Louis resident, Van Duyn will be 81 years old this year; over the course of her career she has been honored with the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Continue reading »
U.S. poet laureate Van Duyn, a formalist who casts most of her poems in elegant meter and rhyme, commands the attention of her readers through their ears. In Firefall , her first book since the Continue reading »
This beautiful anthology of poetry and prose by contemporary Native American writers includes traditional motifs along with works of stark feminism and hopeful futurism. The Continue reading »
Levy debuts with a darkly funny work of hyperrealism about a broke New York City grad student on a self-destructive path as “right-wing nutrition fads fall into fashion” and the Continue reading »
In this scintillating saga from Braithwaite (My Sister, the Serial Killer), generations of women in a Lagos family contend with a curse that prevents them from securing Continue reading »
Rushdie follows his memoir Knife with a marvelous story collection focused on themes of legacy and death. Three novella-length entries are bookended by two shorter works that Continue reading »