November/December 2026

Hundreds of digitized audio recordings from decades of literary events at the Unterberg Poetry Center make iconic readings accessible online.

The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including No Such Thing as Monday by Siân Hughes and Lion by Tina Chang.

The storied subscription service celebrates its centennial of reading and sparking conversation about books.

Under the leadership of Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman, the iconoclastic literary magazine has launched several new editorial and programming initiatives.

Currently based in Philadelphia, Common Notions Press publishes primarily nonfiction books on topics of social justice and radical imagination. 

Sara Elkamel highlights journals that have published her translations of Dalia Taha’s poetry, including Modern Poetry in Translation and ArabLit Quarterly.

The PSA is transforming the neighborhood around its Brooklyn storefront, adding poems to the outside walls of bookstores, public schools, community gardens, cafés, offices, and public housing. 

The literary agent Annie Hwang discusses founding her own agency, Renegade Literary, resisting the biases of the publishing industry, and representing poets. 

Compose a poem based on close observations of your immediate surroundings, vignettes about human and nonhuman characters that reveal multiple points of view, or a lyric essay braiding early memories with stories passed down from ancestors.

For one nonfiction writer with autism and ADHD, perfectionism threatens to “harden the creative process into something punitive.” A sustainable creative practice means regulating intensity, not trying to outrun it.