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Why One of the World’s Most Elusive Writers Still Haunts Readers

Percival Everett’s Prose Is Having a Moment. How Is His Poetry?

Poems About Dead Relatives Irk Billy Collins

A Heady History of the Novel Embraces Works That Shock, Not Soothe

Read Your Way Through Shanghai

Read Your Way Around Hawaii

24 Works of Fiction and Poetry to Read This Fall

At 23, She Had a Termination. 55 Years Later, She’s Ready to Write About It.

How Well Do You Know These Works of the Harlem Renaissance?

Alta, Irreverent Feminist Poet and Small-Press Pioneer, Dies at 81

In a Poem, Just Who Is ‘the Speaker,’ Anyway?

Helen Vendler, ‘Colossus’ of Poetry Criticism, Dies at 90

Some of the Best Bards Were Women

Brontez Purnell Insists on Phoning Writers He Admires

Perfection and Precision in a Poet’s Miniature Worlds

A Poet of His Time, for Better and Worse

The Best Poetry of 2023

Read Your Way Through Madrid

Tracy K. Smith Collects Books About the Supernatural

Can a Poem Be Too Short? It Depends on the Poem, and the Reader.