Jeevika Verma

Alora Young is the 2021 Youth Poet Laureate of the Southern United States. Her debut poetry collection Walking Gentry Home is a memoir written in verse.

Either/Or is Batuman’s sequel to her bestselling Pulitzer finalist novel The Idiot.

Either/Or is Batuman’s sequel to her bestselling Pulitzer finalist novel The Idiot.

Naheed Phiroze Patel’s debut novel Mirror Made of Rain is out in the U.S. this week.

Naheed Phiroze Patel’s debut novel Mirror Made of Rain is out in the U.S. this week.

Naheed Phiroze Patel’s debut novel Mirror Made of Rain is out in the U.S. this week.

Naheed Phiroze Patel’s debut novel Mirror Made of Rain is out in the U.S. this week.

Elena Medel’s novel follows two women, separated in time but facing similar class and gender dynamics. It particularly explores the challenges of motherhood.

Chinese American poet Jane Wong’s new collection, How Not to Be Afraid of Everything, grapples with fear and anger at her family’s silence about what they suffered in China’s Great Leap Forward.

If you, like many people, are getting through the dragging months of the pandemic by being Very Online, you’ll find poet Leigh Stein’s new book is a perfect encapsulation of that experience.

“Antiman” is a slur for gay men — poet Rajiv Mohabir reclaims it in his new memoir, which mixes poetry, song and prose in an investigation of his sexuality and his Guyanese Indian heritage.

In her latest collection, Chinese American poet Muriel Leung considers what it means to assimilate, and ultimately heal, against the collective memory of grief and vulnerability.

Vijay Seshadri has been named the 12th poetry editor of The Paris Review. He says he sees a resurgence in American poetry right now, and a new recognition of different lives and experiences.