A. N. Devers wrote about the life and work of Bette Howland.

The longlists for the 2018 PEN Literary Awards have been announced.

At The Creative Independent, an interview with Hanif Abdurraqib.

Read It Forward interviewed Emma Straub about Books Are Magic.

World Literature Today has new fiction by Kristine Ong Muslim.

At Tablet, thoughts on Jacob M. Appel’s underrated novel Millard Salter’s Last Day.

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