Jay McInerney reviewed David Means’s Hystopia for the Times.

At NPR: Jason King on Prince.

Francine Prose wrote about Better Call Saul for the New York Review of Books.

William Kentridge has created a frieze along 550 feet of the River Tiber.

At the StarTribune: thoughts on the new edition of Maggie Nelson’s The Red Parts.

The Big Issue has an excellent conversation between Kelly Sue DeConnick and Warren Ellis.

Daphne Merkin on a new biography of Charlotte Brontë.

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