Some recommended reading from Mona Awad.

Roxane Gay wrote about her relationship to Catholicism.

The first few essays in BuzzFeed’s The Home Series have been published.

Brooklyn Magazine has a new essay from Helena Fitzgerald.

The latest issue of Bodega is now up.

Nathan Larson assembled a playlist for the anthology Stockholm Noir.

The Guardian has flash fiction from Monica Drake.

Ezra Glinter on the appeal of seltzer.

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