Spencer Ackerman has a bone to pick with Robert A. Caro’s The Passage to Power.

Tonight, Tim Horvath, Brian Evenson, and Bradford Morrow discuss “the comedy of noir” at McNally Jackson. We reviewed Horvath’s Understories last month, and Vol.1 Brooklyn’s Tobias Carroll reviewed Evenson’s Windeye for Capital New York.

New fiction by Shya Scanlon, up at Fiddleback.

John Parker on Brian Wood’s excellent political graphic novel Channel Zero.

Eric Davidson gives us a power-pop playlist for summer.

At Bookforum, John Domini looks at Dylan Hicks’s novel Broken Windows.

Warren Ellis on the aesthetics and layout of webcomics.

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