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 »
Tuck (Sisters) draws on the true story of a Polish Catholic girl who died in Auschwitz in her unflinching latest. The reader first meets Czeslawa Kwoka shortly before the German Continue reading »
Filmmaker and novelist Sayles (Jamie McGillivray) offers an electrifying and convincing chronicle of resistance among Indigenous students at the Carlisle Industrial School in Continue reading »
Newlands debuts with a stirring portrait of a 14-year-old neurodivergent Scottish girl dealing with grief and restlessness. It’s 1994, and Cora Mowat dreams of leaving dull Continue reading »
Venezuelan writer Sainz Borgo (It Would Be Night in Caracas) serves up a rich and lyrical tale of desperation and redemption, set during an outbreak of a plague that causes Continue reading »