PJ Harvey has a book of poetry due out next year.

Slate asked a number of writers for their picks for the most underrated book of the year, and Electric Literature makes the case that this is the year of the literary debut.

Kevin Young was interviewed at Guernica.

Dolan Morgan assembled a That’s When the Knives Come Down playlist at Largehearted Boy.

Laina Dawes on Mary J. Blige’s My Life at 20.

Melissa Broder appeared on the latest installment of the Poetry Magazine Podcast.

Kevin Nguyen revisited John Williams’s Stoner at The Oyster Review.

Checking in with Terry Riley.

T has selections from a new book of Spot’s photography.

At ArtInfo: a look at Robert Altman in the 1980s and 90s.

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