Calvin Tomkins wrote about Chris Ofili for The New Yorker.

The New Yorker has an excerpt up from Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy MacNaughton’s Pen & Ink.

The Los Angeles Review of Books reviewed Wendy C. Ortiz’s Excavation.

At The Quietus: a look at stories about geographic and environmental anxiety from Jeff VanderMeer, Warren Ellis, and Edan Lepucki.

The connection between The Knick and Luc Sante’s Low Life: revealed.

Breaking down the odds for this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature.

David Cronenberg was interviewed about his novel Consumed at Flavorwire.

Biographile has a look at Terence Holt’s book about the lives of doctors.

A look at the reading choices of several attendees of the Brooklyn Book Festival.

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