Kirstin Valdez Quade, Tanwi Nandini Islam, Lincoln Michel, Mark Doten, and Aziz Ansari are among BuzzFeed’s picks for 2015’s best literary debuts.

The Awl has new writing from Bijan Stephen.

LitReactor delves into the morning routines of many a writer.

Rios de la Luz reviewed Guadalupe Nettel’s The Body Where I Was Born.

At Pitchfork: a look at the year’s best experimental records.

Chris Randle on political power, desire, and Justin Trudeau.

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