Jason Diamond on Robin Wasserman’s Girl on Fire.

At Catapult: an excellent essay from Helena Fitzgerald on loneliness.

Finding parallels between Henry Roth and Bernie Sanders.

At Brittle Paper: notes on Teju Cole’s story “Second God.”

Jesse Jarnow reviewed Day of the Dead (the compilation, not the movie) at Pitchfork.

At Motherboard: an excerpt from Emily Schultz’s The Blondes.

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