“Great writers give us permission, usually permission for something we didn’t even know we were waiting for permission.” Daniel José Older was interviewed at Gawker.

At Slant Magazine: a review of Todd Haynes’s Patricia Highsmith adaptation Carol.

The Rumpus has new nonfiction from Jerry Stahl.

Amelia Gray has assembled a list of her favorite unsettling books.

Longreads has a story from John Keene.

The Dissolve has a clip up from Natalie Portman’s Amos Oz adaptation.

Feel like watching a short documentary on Pratt’s longtime chief engineer?

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