James Han Mattson’s REPRIEVE was named one of Publishers Weekly’s Top Ten Literary Fiction titles for fall 2021. William Morrow will publish the novel on October 5, 2021.

Jonathan Parks-Ramage's novel YES, DADDY was featured on Men's Health's list of “The 25 Best LGBTQ+ Books to Read This Pride Month.” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published the novel on May 18, 2021.

Robert Jones Jr.'s bestselling debut novel THE PROPHETS was featured on CNN's “20 Books that are Essential Reading this Pride Month.” G.P. Putnam’s Sons published the novel on January 5, 2021.

Mike Konczal and J.W. Mason argue in the New York Times that the U.S. economy is poised for a historic boom: "It’s been half a century since Americans have seen an extended period where the economy was running at anything like full capacity. This time, if we play it right, it could be different." Mike Konczal’s book FREEDOM FROM THE MARKET was published January 12, 2021 from The New Press.

Conor Dougherty author of the acclaimed book GOLDEN GATES joined The Realignment podcast to unpack the housing crisis, the connection between homelessness and affordability, NIMBYs vs YIMBYs, and what a backlash to policies that increase construction could look like. GOLDEN GATES published February 18, 2020 from Penguin Press.

YES, DADDY, Jonathan Parks-Ramage's novel, was chosen for The Advocate's 5 Most Exciting LGBTQ+ Debut Books to Read This Summer. The reviewer writes: "Things I liked about the novel [are] the masterful pacing and how the book explores how challenging it can be when a victim comes forward with their story. This is a knockout debut, one of the most exciting of the year. Will it make you uncomfortable? Yes, Daddy. Should you still absolutely read it? Yes, Daddy." HMH/Mariner Books published the novel May 18, 2021.

The New York Times bestselling novel THE PROPHETS by Robert Jones, Jr. has been named a Best Book of the Year So Far 2021 by Goodreads and the Amazon Book Review. In their review, Amazon writes: “The intimate connection between two male slaves toiling on a Mississippi plantation is the only thing that cuts through their otherwise brutal existence. This is the one bright spot in a lyrical but devastating debut novel that shines a harsher light on a shameful legacy that is still deeply felt today. It’s also a profound reminder of love’s power to repudiate it.” Putnam published the book January 5, 2021.

Rosecrans Baldwin's EVERYTHING NOW has been reviewed by the New York Times on the day of its highly anticipated release. They write: “To write the definitive book about Los Angeles would be impossible. In EVERYTHING NOW, the novelist Rosecrans Baldwin doesn’t try. And in not trying, he may have written the perfect book about Los Angeles. Freewheeling and polyhedral, the book could serve equally as an ornament on the coffee table of a Silver Lake architect; a pamphlet at an anti-deportation rally downtown." The Los Angeles Times also ran a feature interview with Baldwin, hailing EVERYTHING NOW as “an impressionistic, ambivalent, interview-heavy, judgment-light book of reportage about L.A. today.” MCD Books published the book on June 15, 2021.

Padma Lakshmi’s TOMATOES FOR NEELA was featured in the U.S. Book Show, which was held from May 25-27 and featured keynote speeches and discussions with authors of upcoming high-profile titles. Lakshmi sat down with Viking Children’s Books editorial director Tamar Brazis for her keynote, where she spoke about “[wanting] to create a story that taught [her] daughter about respecting the seasons, knowing when different things grew, and also where our food comes from,” as well as “[shortening] that distance…between the tomato on the dinner table and the hands that picked it.” The keynote was also highlighted on Publishers Weekly’s best-of list from the event. Viking Books for Young Readers will publish the book on August 31, 2021.

Madeleine Schwartz profiled Xiaolu Guo's literary and film works for The New York Review. On Guo's latest novel, A LOVER'S DISCOURSE, she writes: "Guo seems interested in describing distance rather than points of commonality, capturing an inability to talk rather than a global conversation. While the language of globalized literature can be flat and universal to the point of alienation, Guo’s English, with its deliberate missteps, its open confusion, and its pockets of cold, is perhaps better able to capture a certain kind of alienation that people feel when being forced to communicate in a language that isn’t native to them." Grove Press published A LOVER’S DISCOURSE on October 13, 2020.