Tiphanie Yanique was interviewed at Publishers Weekly.

Isaac Fitzgerald wrote about wearing makeup for a week.

At Grantland: Danny Chau on Natalie Prass.

Elisabeth Donnelly takes us through some highlights of George Orwell’s writing.

Jeremy Gordon reviewed Belle and Sebastian’s Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance at Pitchfork.

At Biographile: a look at why Patricia Highsmith’s work still captivates us.

Jennifer Kelly reviewed Irreal, the latest from Chicago’s Disappears, at Dusted.

Talking Susan Howe at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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