David Remnick interviewed Ta-Nehisi Coates.

At the Times, Roxane Gay wrote about the death of Sandra Bland.

Michael Chabon on the literary legacy of E.L. Doctorow.

Wendy C. Ortiz was interviewed at the LA Review of Books.

Molly Gaudry wrote about lyric essays.

At The Paris Review: reproducing Borges’s Library of Babel online.

A look at the importance of Jessica Hopper’s recent collection.

At Impose: new music from Wax Idols.

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