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The Paris Review asked its contributors to fill us in on their favorite books of 2020, and it's all Jeremy Prynne for Jeff Dolven.

At Vanity Fair, Laura Regensdorf writes about Rachel Rabbit White, author of  Porn Carnival (Wonder, 2019) and the forthcoming Porn Carnival: Paradise Edition (Wonder, 2020), who is newly engaged to Nico Walker and shares excerpts...

At LARB, Katie da Cunha Lewin looks carefully at Brian Dillon's new book, Suppose a Sentence (New York Review Books, 2020), which is "composed of essays of varying length, each focused on a single...

Erin Becker looks back to Lisa Rogal's chapbook, Feed Me Weird Things (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018) for a review at MAKE Literary Magazine.

In a new review for The Baffler, Karthik Purushothaman considers Philip Metres's most recent collection, Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon, 2020).

At Hyperallergic, Mark Scroggins reviews two new poetry collections: Uche Nduka's Facing You (City Lights, 2020) and Catherine Wagner's Of Course (Fence, 2020).

Iowa-based magazine Little Village shares word that Marvin Bell, who taught for many years at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and served as the state of Iowa's first poet laureate, has died...

At San Francisco Chronicle, Tony Bravo writes about Gene Kahane's efforts to bring socially-conscious poetry to the residents of Alameda in a pandemic.

Poets & Writers staff dive into the deep end of the situation at Poets House, with a thorough article that surveys everything from the organization's abrupt closing and mass firing, to the ensuing...