At the Village Voice, Porochista Khakpour wrote about women and Prince.

Joy Williams has won the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.

Delving into the beginnings of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s run on Black Panther, at New Republic.

Talking with Kid Congo Powers at Vogue.

The 53rd episode of the Catapult podcast will be its last before an indefinite hiatus.

Black Candies has new fiction from Sarah Rose Etter.

Rachel Syme reviewed Olivia Laing’s The Lonely City for the Barnes & Noble Review.

Jersey Beat‘s Jim Testa was interviewed at Greenpointers.

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