Tor.com has an excerpt up from Sofia Samatar’s forthcoming novel The Winged Histories.

Talking bad reviews with Sheila Heti.

Porochista Khakpour reviewed Han Kang’s novel The Vegetarian.

Jason Diamond revisited the 1985 Chicago Bears.

Iain Sinclair collaborated with Standard Planets on new music.

Here’s new fiction from Gregory Howard.

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