Jason Mott’s “Hell of a Book” won The National Book Award in 2021. It is an astounding work of fiction where a Black author sets out on a publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. The book – always deeply honest, at times electrically funny — goes to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans and America as a whole.
What does hope look like? How do we find and hold onto it in the midst of personal turmoil, communal suffering, global chaos and...
Edwidge Danticat has enriched and enlarged American literature with her novels and short stories about Haiti. Her latest, “We’re Alone,” is an essay collection...
Billy Collins is a former Poet Laureate of the United States and is the author of twelve collections of poetry. His latest is Water,...
