At Pitchfork: a look at the long-running Chicago jazz institution AACM at 50.

Joan Didion’s “Goodbye to All That” has been optioned for film.

Tyler Coates wrote about Roman Polanski’s unsurprisingly problematic 1979 adaptation of Tess of the d’Ubervilles.

At The Atlantic: revisiting the Neil Gaiman-written comic The Books of Magic.

Kyle Chayka wrote about meerkats and Knausgaard for Hazlitt.

Hobart has new fiction from N. Michelle AuBuchon.

Ian King reviewed the recent Bedhead box set.

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