THE WORLD IS ENDING! Again. Doomsdayers and apocalyptic prophets have warned of coming calamity for millennia. Still, humanity persists. This book club explores world endings in literature.

This week’s book is Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor.

This UI Stanley Museum of Art program is graciously hosted in partnership with Public Space One.

The University of Iowa’s Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing is thrilled to announce Jia Tolentino as our 2019–2020 Visiting Writer-in-Residence. Jia is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the critically acclaimed essay collection Trick Mirror (recently named one of the most notable books of the year by The New York Times and a finalist for the National Book Critic Circle’s prize for best first book). Formerly, she was the deputy editor of Jezebel and contributing editor at The...

Writers’ Workshop graduate Brandon Taylor will read from his highly anticipated debut novel, Real Life.  Danielle Evans describes Real Life as “a gorgeous work of art, and the introduction of a singular new voice. Through Wallace, the book explores the tension of a person trying to become himself while surrounded by people who can see him only as their own projection. Even as Brandon Taylor dives beneath the level of polite surface interaction and into the ache of what people conceal from one...

Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumnus Geoffrey Nutter will give a reading on Thursday, February 13 at 8 p.m. in the Frank Conroy Reading Room.

Geoffrey Nutter is the author of five collections of poetry: A Summer Evening (winner of the 2001 Colorado Prize), Water's Leaves & Other Poems (winner of the 2004 Verse Press Prize), Christopher Sunset (Wave Books, 2010), The Rose of January (Wave Books, 2013), and Cities at Dawn (Wave Books, 2016). He earned degrees from both San Francisco State University...