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 »
A pair of Salvadoran American Harvard students attempt to uncover their family histories with the aid of a time-bending experimental device in Reyes’s marvelous debut novel Continue reading »
Across these subtly interconnected stories, Park (Same Bed Different Dreams) crafts a world animated by pulp fiction and space operas as much as by the mundane joys and sorrows Continue reading »
The U.S. debut from French writer Sinno blends autobiography and literary criticism for a staggering portrait of her rapist. Neige chronicles how her stepfather began raping her Continue reading »
A woman embarks on a surreal quest in the delightfully bizarre and nightmarish latest from Mexican writer Bellatin (Beauty Salon). The main character, a reporter known only as Continue reading »