Bookforum takes a look at Mohsin Hamid’s new book Discontent and Its Civilizations.

David Cronenberg talked with The Dissolve about Maps To the Stars.

Cari Luna and Jeff Jackson wrote about Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark’s I’m Very Into You.

Talking silence, art, and Ben Lerner’s 10:04.

At Pitchfork, Mike Powell wrote about listening to Prince in the 1980s.

Lit Reactor talked with some of the best artists working on indie press covers.

There’s new fiction from Jonathan Crowl at Guernica.

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