Bridey Heing (brideyheing.com) is a contributing editor to World Literature Today and a freelance writer. She has reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement, the Economist, the Daily Beast, and others.
From left to right: Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Pajtim Statovci, Tore Renberg, Kamila Shamsie, and Jo Nesbø.
On a recent Saturday, the Southbank Centre in central London was home to a live...
Laurens explores the seductive danger of a digital fountain of youth in this novel about women’s identity and agency in midlife.
Technology and gender standards collide in Camille Laurens’s...
Washington, DC, is a city that holds culture and the arts close to its heart. When the stereotypes and outside-the-beltway misconceptions about what this city is—political infighting, opportunistic s...
The Free Minds book club and writing workshop at AWP empowered young inmates to “write new chapters in their lives.” Said Nokomis, “Free Minds encouraged me to be a better writer . . . to be a bigger...