Elizabeth Hand on Charlie Jane Anders’s All the Birds in the Sky.

Here’s new fiction from Joseph Riippi.

David Rees makes the case for Sleep’s album Dopesmoker.

Preeti Chhibber discusses diversity in reading and questions of universality.

Gabino Iglesias was interviewed at Cultured Vultures.

Who (if anyone) is the David Bowie of literature?

Joyland presents new fiction from Duncan Birmingham.

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