Sarah Gerard reviewed Noy Holland’s Bird in the Times.

The Millions has a look ahead to the most anticipated books of 2016.

The Los Angeles Review of Books reviewed Maris Kreizman’s Slaughterhouse 90210.

Brooklyn Magazine has a literary preview of the first half of 2016.

Some thoughts on recent albums from Robert Christgau.

Cemetery Dance has new fiction from Damien Angelica Walters.

Notes on narratives without an ending.

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