Sofia Samarar recently talked with Fiston Mwanza Mujila and Roland Glasser about Tram 83, and with Sarah McCarry about About a Girl.

The National Book Awards longlists have been announced for Fiction and Nonfiction.

SPIN has an oral history of PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me.

If you’d like to hear the new album from Positive No, The AV Club has you covered.

Talking history and comics with Kate Beaton at the Barnes & Noble Review.

Word Riot has a new essay from Eleanor Kriseman.

Hazlitt has new fiction from Naomi Skwarna.

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