...a spectrum of characters and the winding grief, anxieties, loneliness, exhilarations, and desires that spin inside them and ricochet through disparate scenarios.
Understated and wrecked, Antonio “Tony” Gongora, the 53-year old narrator of Mexican writer Juan Villor’s recent novel, The Reef , is in a suspended state of recovery: recovering from the …
The cycle of desperation and abundance play a significant role in The Golden Cockerel & Other Writings , Juan Rulfo’s legendary lost novel translated into English to mark the 100-year …
Christian Bancroft: Describe some of the current projects you’re working on right now. Matt Grimes: Most of my work lately has been acrylic paintings, and I try to always tie them back to an …
The Blunt Research Group descended upon the literary community in the summer of 2015, veiled with mystery, intrigue, and profundity. In their author bio, it states that they are “a nameless …
Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas’s series of essays, Don’t Come Back , is an exploration of belonging and of the ways memory and imagination interact to create history. Ferreira …
Author Jeff VanderMeer’s newest novel Borne (FSG, out April 25 th ) has been named one of the most anticipated of 2017 by The New York Times , Publishers Weekly , and others. Colson Whitehead …
Apocalyptic, unflinching, flinty yet lush, Hala Alyan’s HIJRA is a gathering of vivid lyrics on flight and exile. As the title suggests ( hijra refers to the prophet Muhammed’s migration from …
Omar El Akkad’s fiction debut, American War (April, Knopf), envisions a second American Civil War, waged 2074 to 2093, again between South and North. The effects of global climate change have …
Gregory Pardlo's collection Digest won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was shortlisted for the NAACP Image Award, and was a finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award.. His other honors include …
Tim Z. Hernandez’s first nonfiction work, All They Will Call You , is sharp and decidedly sobering. With this his sixth book, he investigates and reveals the stories of several of the twenty-eight …
Lo Kwa Mei-en’s second collection of poems, The Bees Make Money in the Lion , is a loaded, postmodern experience. As if to channel versions of dystopia, Mei-en crafts poems that embrace the notion …
Language itself forms the vital, visceral engine behind WoO , Renee Angle’s new collection of prose poetry. In this creative rewriting of the lost first draft of The Book of Mormon, Angle positions …
More than twenty years into a distinguished writing career, celebrated author George Saunders is publishing his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo (Random House, out February 14). “Bardo” is a …
This year we asked our editors at Gulf Coast to list their five favorite books of 2016. They did just that, and the lists that they provided are in no particular order (it was hard enough for most of …
"Tigue has a storyteller's eye for digging up the roots of trivia; she uses them to fasten together the poem’s emotional nerves."
Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez is at the forefront of decentering Colombian literature as it's commonly known: the magical realism, the polite political allegories, the associated orientalist …
Ford Over is a collection of word and image from writer, interpreter, and translator John Pluecker that takes as its source material the language of colonial explorers and cartographers—travelers …
These new, abstract, modestly sized paintings (most are smaller than four feet square) by David Aylsworth are strangely familiar yet entirely different than this Houston-based painter’s previous …
On the sprung floors of the Eldorado Ballroom, in Houston’s Third Ward, before Fred Moten read from his new book The Service Porch , he began with a track by Carmen McRae, “Sometimes I’m …