At Tablet, a look at The Essential Ellen Willis.

The New Republic has thoughts on the World Cup from the likes of Aleksandar Hemon, Karl Ove Knausgård, and more.

Jason Heller’s Fear of a Punk Decade series has reached 1999.

At Full Stop, a review of John Waters’s Carsick.

New fiction from Alexi Zenter at Guernica.

Minneapolis’s Web of Sunsets has a new EP due out later this year. (We talked with them earlier in the year.)

English Kills Review has photos up from Monday’s Franklin Park Reading Series.

At Pitchfork, there’s an interview with Ruined Fortune’s Angie Garrick.

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