New fiction from Sam Lipsyte at The New Yorker.

Mitchell S. Jackson on Donald Sterling, at Guernica.

Rose McLaren on Karl Ove Knausgaard and Renaissance art.

Adrian Van Young on Linn Ullman’s The Cold Song: “a showcase for Ullmann’s considerable powers of characterization.”

Flavorwire will be spotlighting the works of James Agee this month.

Father John Misty talks songwriting and novels at Pitchfork.

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