from Hurt People
Cote Smith's HURT PEOPLE is a finalist for the 2017 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Read the first chapter. More
from Insurrections
I bet if I were to ask him about these old times, he’d deflect with his signature joke, I hated you all equally. More
from We Show What We Have Learned
Clare Beams's WE SHOW WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED is a finalist for the 2017 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Read the titular story. More
from Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi's HOMEGOING is a finalist for the 2017 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Read an excerpt from the novel. More
from Dark Money
Jane Mayer's DARK MONEY is a finalist for the 2017 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Read an excerpt from the book. More
from The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead's THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD is a finalist for the 2017 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Read an excerpt from the novel. More
from Known and Strange Things
Teju Cole's "Known and Strange Things" is a finalist for the 2017 PEN Jean/Stein Book Award. Here's an essay from the collection. More
from The Return
And the fathers must have known, having once themselves been sons, that the ghostly presence of their hand will remain throughout the years… More