Ronnie Scott looks at the place where Destroyer and Javier Marías meet.

Elisabeth Donnelly wrote about Jess Row’s Your Face in Mine for Flavorwire.

The Los Angeles Review of Books on MoMA’s series of noir films.

Some tour photos from Koen Holtkamp, perhaps?

Brandon Stosuy on Foundations of Burden, the new album from Pallbearer.

ComicsAlliance checks in with Paul Pope about his forthcoming projects.

The AV Club has a selection of music from The Aislers Set, whose discography will be reissued this year.

Music about gambling, with a nod to Dostoyevsky.

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