Zachary Lipez talked with Jon Fine about his book Your Band Sucks.

A look at a new home for La Monte Young’s Dream House.

The Offing has new poetry from Molly Rose Quinn.

In the new issue of Guernica, Helen Rosner wrote about chicken tenders.

Adam Gopnick on the closing of a Paris bookstore.

Notes on the soundtrack to a Tuareg remake of Purple Rain.

Scott Tobias on the film Quick Change.

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