"A hunger that feels distinctly of our time: to follow thought as it unfolds, to see the forces that shape it, to watch meaning being made instead of delivered." —Laura Moore electricliterature.com/nonfiction-i...

"Art can’t save us from anything, but we need it as a reminder of something better." —A.O. Scott www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"The AI boom not only normalizes plagiarism, but it also entirely ignores the work it takes to produce great writing." —Maris Kreizman lithub.com/when-we-deva...

Citing a chronic shortage of financial backing for independent publishers & nonprofits dedicated to writing and reading, a coalition of seven charitable foundations has established a Literary Arts Fund that will distribute a minimum of $50 million over the next five years. https://to.pbs.org/4o6lqua

"American philanthropy can and must play a bigger role in strengthening the financial infrastructure of the literary organizations and nonprofits that serve these literary artists." —Elizabeth Alexander, poet and President of the Mellon Foundation lithub.com/good-news-a-...

Happy to help share the news of the Literary Arts Fund launch today and to serve as its executive director. More here: literaryartsfund.org

"To let it be—that is the crux of the poet’s task: 'Leave this little echo to haunt the poem…It has the shape of your own soul as you write.'" —Elisa Gonzalez @parisreview.bsky.social www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/09...

"As laureate I feel a great responsibility to promote the ways poetry, especially poetry in translation, can impact our daily lives." —Arthur Sze, the new US Poet Laureate www.npr.org/2025/09/15/n...

Praise the mutilated world and the gray feather a thrush lost, and the gentle light that strays and vanishes and returns. —Adam Zagajewski www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57095/...

"By taking the brave leap of participating in challenging conversations, we allow ourselves to be seen more truly and honestly; we may even become better listeners, too, and gain compassion for differing opinions." —Linda-Marie Barrett lithub.com/why-everyone...

"There are unbelievably dedicated artists, makers, thinkers and doers working away in rural communities, in their little cabin in the woods next to the river, just like Lorine. How important those voices are." —Clara Wolfe pbswisconsin.org/article/arch...

"Poems are still showing me who I am, what has shaped me, and what I care about, and I love (Stanley) Kunitz’s 'every stone on the road / precious to me.'" —Joan Larkin brooklynrail.org/2025/09/book...

"You have to change it up, you have to experiment, you have to insist that your work is not just a reaction to what’s happening to you. Your work is a thing in and of itself, a way of positing another vision of the world." —Arundhati Roy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/m...

“Writing is, then, for me, an act and a process of mindfulness, which is as difficult in writing as it is in life, but which, for me, often only happens because of writing.” —Brandon Shimoda coloradosun.com/2025/08/31/s...

"A great book review can be just as rich, entertaining, and insightful as a great short story." —@thefrontlist.org worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

“What’s the most important thing humanity has engineered?...It was the creation of the systemic and institutional trust that was required for us to build societies. And a lot of that engineering was actually collective stories..." —Daniel Kwan www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

We’re hiring—for two full-time positions! Los Angeles Review of Books is seeking a Membership & Development Manager and an Audience Engagement Editor to support our team. Based in LA, listings and info below:

“Reading has historically been a low-barrier, high-impact way to engage creatively and improve quality of life. When we lose one of the simplest tools in our public health toolkit, it’s a serious loss.” —Jill Sonke www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.

“I think it is important to grant people the right to be saved by the stories they need.” —Federico Pianzola www.publicbooks.org/our-golden-a...

"Words may not help us reach that which is beyond us, but they do help to reignite within us the innate desire to transcend ourselves." —Ali Hammoud www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Post-training improvements don’t seem to be strengthening models as thoroughly as scaling once did. A lot of utility can come from souping up your Camry, but no amount of tweaking will turn it into a Ferrari." — Cal Newport www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

NEH Announces $34.79 Million in Grants for 97 Humanities Projects tinyurl.com/ympbr56k

"Do people want to read novels written by an AI? Is [the purpose of fiction] not to make contact with other humans and to feel less alone?" —Naomi Alderman www.ft.com/content/7ce8...

The 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship application is now open! The application portal is available until September 16th, 2025. Apply now and find out more here: www.gf.org/program/how-...

"When readers open themselves up to the intensity of another’s experience — even that of an invented person — it can be transformative." —Esi Edugyan www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...

A new report from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)—"the most comprehensive look at what is being taught by English teachers since a 1989 federally funded survey"— reveals the small range of books being taught today. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

"What we stand to lose is not just a skill but a mode of being: the pleasure of invention, the felt life of the mind at work." — @meghanor.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

"When I left my body, I did not go away. That portal of light was not a portal to elsewhere, but a portal to here. I am more here than I ever was before.” —Andrea Gibson www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

To truly live is to see right through the skin to the avalanche. If we never deny the inevitable end of the story, we will write it more beautiful while we're alive. —Andrea Gibson (1975 - 2025), rest in poems dear poet, courageous guide

"AI may never be able to write a great poem — a truly original poem — because a poem is made not of language but of experience, and the defining aspect of human experience is the constant collision between our wishes and reality..." —@mariapopova.bsky.social www.themarginalian.org/2025/07/07/s...

What is a poet but a person Who lives on the ground Who laughs and listens Without pretension of knowing Anything, driven by the lyric's Quest for rest that never (God willing) will be found? —Fanny Howe, rest in poems great poet (1940 - 2025) www.theparisreview.org/interviews/8...

A helpful overview of recent lawsuits re: AI... slate.com/technology/2...

Congratulations to this year’s CLMP Firecracker Award winners! @clmporg.bsky.social

As a writer and an editor, Toni Morrison put humanity plainly on the page, where it would outlast her and her critics alike, Boris Kachka writes in The Atlantic Books Briefing.

Remembering Bill Moyers with gratitude. His PBS series with poets and his books, including The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets, introduced poetry to millions of individuals and underscored the enriching value and meaning literature brings to our lives. RIP www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/b...

"We are rushing toward a future where our novels, our biographies, our poems and our memoirs—our records of the human experience—are 'written' by artificial intelligence models that, by definition, cannot know what it is to be human. To bleed, or starve, or love." lithub.com/against-ai-a...

Cleveland on the map... clevelandmagazine.com/entertainmen...

"Other countries celebrate writers who are equally adept at criticism, theater, fiction, biography, memoir — letters in every sense of the word — but in the U.S. the tradition has lapsed. Perhaps Ed was the last of his kind." —Andrew Sean Greer www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/b...

"Poets allow us to dream and inspire us to reckon with our past, interpret the present, and imagine new futures." —Brian Boyles, executive director of Mass Humanities. www.wgbh.org/culture/2025...

“Perhaps, in order for children to fall back in love with reading, adults have to get out of the way,” @shaneharris.bsky.social writes in Time-Travel Thursdays.

"Getting the word out about one of these books is difficult enough without having to compete with books that don’t exist." —@maris.bsky.social @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/you-see-gene...

‘This was the book the judges really loved, right from our first reading’ We're delighted to announce that the winner of the #InternationalBooker2025 is Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi. Here's everything you need to know about the book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist 🔗 www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...

"...I'm the apparatus of what there is to be; and I am making it, my time visibly becoming me." —Alice Notley, rest in poems dear poet poets.org/poem/individ...

“Everybody applies for an NEA grant...It's not just the money. It's also deep encouragement. I just felt so grateful. It made a big, big difference. It gives you courage. It says to you, ‘Go on, keep doing it.’” —Marie Howe, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet abcnews.go.com/amp/Entertai...

And the Pulitzer winners are...

"I'm writing toward bravery. I'm writing toward courage." —Ada Limón www.npr.org/2025/04/29/n...

The year’s best picture and best album have been chosen. On May 5, the book world gets its big moment. It’s Pulitzer time! From long shots to shoe-ins, here are Bradley Sides’ predictions for this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.