Kaitlyn Greenidge was interviewed at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

At Slate: a review of Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom.

New writing from Bryan Washington at The Awl.

Amanda Petrusich on the current role of music criticism.

Michele Filgate on Vivian Gornick’s The Odd Woman and the City.

At io9: revisiting John Carpenter’s Lovecraft-infused In the Mouth of Madness.

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