Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine Receives 2026 Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize
June 18th, 2026
Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine recently received the Lambda Literary’s 2026 Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist…
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Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine Named 2025 National Book Award Finalist
October 9th, 2025
On October 7th, 2025, the five finalists of the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction were announced. Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine’s novel The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and…
An Interview with Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine in the New York Times
September 26th, 2025
On September 28, 2025, an interview with Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine was published in the New York Times. From “Rabih Alameddine Is Done With Dostoyevsky” What books…
“Six Very Depressing Books That Might Just Cheer You Up” by Rabih Alameddine in Lit Hub
September 3rd, 2025
On September 2, 2025, Lit Hub published “Six Very Depressing Books That Might Just Cheer You Up” by Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine. “I’ve always read my way through depressions. When my…
Rabih Alameddine’s New Novel, The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), Reviewed in Alta Journal
August 27th, 2025
On August 25, 2025, Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine’s latest novel The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) (Grove Press, 2025) was reviewed in Alta Journal. From “Time…
Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna writes about the late Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in The Guardian
August 13th, 2025
On August 12, 2025 The Guardian published “Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest” with an introduction written by Lannan Center…
Rabih Alameddine receives Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award
April 11th, 2025
Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine has received The Publishing Triangle Awards’ Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award. Alameddine was praised for his “powerful imagination on the page…
Lannan Visiting Lecturer Tope Folarin Publishes “The City Was All I Had” in Places Journal
March 22nd, 2025
In January 2025, Lannan Visiting Lecturer Tope Folarin published an essay, “The City Was All I Had,” in Places Journal. Read “The City Was All I…
Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna Reviews André Aciman’s “Roman Year” in New York Times
December 2nd, 2024
On October 21, 2024, Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna’s review of André Aciman’s new memoir, “Roman Year,” was published in the New York Times. Read “An Exile Revisits the Squalor and Grandeur…
Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna Published in Condé Nast Traveler
September 3rd, 2024
On August 13, 2024, Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna’s piece on a trip to explore the vast Ennedi Plateau was published in Condé Nast Traveler. Read “Chad’s Ancient Geology and Epic Grandeur…
Rabih Alameddine’s “Comforting Myths” Reviewed in Publishers Weekly
September 3rd, 2024
On August 8, 2024, Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine’s latest book Comforting Myths: Concerning the Political in Art was reviewed in Publishers Weekly.…
Patricia Guzman Reviews “The Farewell Light” by Nidia Hernández in World Literature Today
September 3rd, 2024
Lannan Center Program Manager Patricia Guzman reviewed Nidia Hernández’s The Farewell Light (Arrowsmith Press, 2024) in the September 2024 issue of World Literature…
Rabih Alameddine’s Newest Book “Comforting Myths” Forthcoming October 2024
August 20th, 2024
Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine’s newest book, Comforting Myths: Concerning the Political in Art will be published October 2024. “In this concisely argued and illuminating book, the…
Two New Poems by Patricia Guzman Published in POETRY Magazine
June 17th, 2024
Lannan Center Program Manager Patricia Guzman has two new poems in the June 2024 issue of POETRY Magazine. Read “Perennial” and “First Fall” on the Poetry Foundation website. View…
Lannan Director Aminatta Forna reviews “The Road to the Country” by Chigozie Obioma
May 31st, 2024
On May 23, 2024, The Guardian published a review of Chigozie Obioma’s The Road to the Country (Penguin, June 2024) written by Lannan Director Aminatta Forna. Read “The Road to the Country by…
Lannan Visiting Lecturer Tope Folarin Reviews Claire Messud’s “This Strange Eventful History” in The Atlantic
On May 13, 2024, Lannan Visiting Lecturer Tope Folarin published a review of Claire Messud’s new novel This Strange Eventful History. Read A Family Story About Colonialism and Its Aftereffects by…
Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna Co-Authors Article with Dr. Daniel Marchalik in The Lancet
Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna recently co-authored an article with Dr. Daniel Marchalik, Associate Director of the Medical Humanities Initiative, that focuses on the intersection between…
The Hoya Reports on the 2024 Lannan Literary Festival
On March 22, 2024, The Hoya reported on the 2024 Lannan Literary Festival that took place from March 19 – 21. Read Lannan Literary Festival Highlights Experiences of Writers from All Backgrounds by…
Carolyn Forché’s Newest Poem Published in The Atlantic
On March 24th, Lannan Center Director of Readings and Talks and Distinguished University Professor Carolyn Forché had a poem published in The Atlantic. Read “Night Shift in the Home for…
“When they come for the poets” by Rabih Alameddine Published in The Washington Post
Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine recently wrote an op-ed piece about the killing of Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer and the arrests of poets through the ages. Read “When they come for the…
Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna Writes “What Fiction Can Reveal About the Fragile Fabric of Our Societies” in LitHub
On January 29, 2024, LitHub published the prologue to the new 20th anniversary edition of The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s Quest by Aminatta Forna. Read “What Fiction Can Reveal…
Lannan Visiting Lecturer Tope Folarin Has Three Book Reviews Published in The Atlantic This Year
Lannan Visiting Lecturer Tope Folarin reviewed three books this year in The Atlantic: Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez, Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead, and Blackouts by Justin Torres.…
Lannan Visiting Lecturer Toper Folarin Introduces Edwidge Danticat at the PEN/Malamud Award Ceremony
On December 1, 2023, Lannan Visiting Lecturer Tope Folarin introduced Edwidge Danticat at the PEN/Malamud Award Ceremony in which Danticat was honored. Watch the ceremony…
Rabih Alameddine receives 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine’s The Wrong End of the Telescope (Grove Atlantic) has been selected as the winner of the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.…
Carolyn Forché inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Lannan Center Director of Readings and Talks and Distinguished University Professor Carolyn Forché has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.…
Lannan Visiting Lecturer Tope Folarin reviews Teju Cole’s novel “Tremor”
Read “A Multitude of Selves: Teju Cole and the forking paths of autofiction” by Tope Folarin in The Nation.…
Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna Launches New Podcast with Beyond Borders Scotland
Aminatta Forna, the director of the Lannan Center, recently launched the Beyond Borders Scotland Podcast, co-hosted by Mark Muller Stuart and Oscar Guardiola-Rivera. …
Lannan Visiting Lecturer Tope Folarin reviews “The Life and Times of Hannah Craft” by Gregg Hecimovich
Read “The years-long search for an enslaved author’s true identity” by Tope Folarin in The Washington Post. …
Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna Writes Lead Review for Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Latest Novel “Afterlives”
Read “Prelude to Empire” by Aminatta Forna.…
Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna Gives Opening Keynote Alongside Wole Soyinka at the NYU Accra ‘Reclaiming the Narrative’ Symposium
On October 19th, 2023, Lannan Center director Aminatta Forna gave the opening keynote speech at the ‘Reclaiming the Narrative’ symposium at NYU Accra in Accra, Ghana.…
Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna Writes a Review of Scholastique Mukasonga’s “Kibogo”
Read “Kibogo by Scholastique Mukasonga review – crisis in colonial Rwanda” by Aminatta Forna. “Kamanzi, our sub-chief, came to take away our children.” So begins a trail of misfortune that…