Emma Straub’s new novel The Vacationers gets a glowing review at Kirkus.

This week: revisiting The Royal Tenebaums at The Dissolve.

Elissa Schappell on Kim Novak.

Jenn Pelly on why the Vivian Girls mattered,

William Basinski’s Melancholia is getting reissued.

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