At Slate, Katy Waldman wrote about Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk.

Mish Way wrote about style and Shania Twain.

George R.R. Martin had great things to say about Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven.

Dazed talked with Shabby Doll House’s Lucy K. Shaw about The Reader.

Talking Norman Spinrad at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

The forthcoming publication Heck has an impressive masthead, and is holding a fundraiser.

Notes on Brooklyn culture, at Brooklyn Magazine.

The New Inquiry examined and critiqued the genre of “Islamophobic futurism.”

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