Michael Schaub interviewed Mishka Shubaly for Men’s Journal.

Daniel José Older, Ashley Cassandra Ford, and Tanwi Nandini Islam discussed the concept of diversity in literature.

Patricia Lockwood wrote about attending a Donald Trump rally.

At The Paris Review, Zinzi Clemmons wrote a remembrance of her cousin Phife Dawg.

Kaitlyn Greenidge has written a new essay, and you can find it in the New  York Times.

NPR has a review of Dana Spiotta’s novel Innocents and Others.

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