Casey N. Cep wrote about Harper Lee’s planned true-crime novel.

Highlights from #WomenInFiction on Twitter.

David Graeber wrote about “the criminalization of American life.”

Scout has a review of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric.

Horacio Castellanos Moya’s The Dream of My Return was reviewed at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Notes on Phosphorescent’s live album, at Dusted.

There’s a new essay from Aeman Ansari at Hazlitt.

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