Teju Cole discussed the day’s news with the New York Times.

Emily Schultz has an excellent essay up on Bustle on Ursula K. Le Guin.

TV on the Radio’s Kyp Malone was interviewed at Wondering Sound.

Abraham Riesman on the history of Cat Fancy.

Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina of Pussy Riot are working with JD Samson.

Flavorwire recommends art books that came out this year.

John Dermot Woods’s The Baltimore Atrocities was reviewed at The Fanzine.

Jason Bailey on the death of mid-budget cinema.

Are you, perhaps, living in an Alice Munro story?

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