Roxane Gay reviewed Mia Alvar’s In the Country.

At The Guardian, Kiese Laymon, Syreeta McFadden, Steven W Thrasher and Alexander Chee discussed Go Set a Watchman.

Jason Diamond on the The Decline of Western Civilization documentaries.

Feel like checking out an interview with Wendy C. Ortiz?

Heavy Feather Review has a review up of Lincoln Michel’s forthcoming collection Upright Beasts.

At The Quietus, Ned Raggett revisited Funkadelic’s Let’s Take It To The Stage.

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