BOMB has an excerpt up from Valeria Luiselli’s forthcoming The Story of My Teeth.

This year’s Shirley Jackson Award nominees have been announced.

Norman Brannon wrote about the solo debut from Mac McCaughan.

Seth Colter Walls on Kamasi Washington’s The Epic, at Pitchfork.

Carolyn Kellogg reviewed Emily Schultz’s The Blondes.

The woman who inspired Pulp’s “Common People” may have been found.

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