Laura Adamcyzk reviewed Gabriel Blackwell’s Madeleine E. at The AV Club.

Brian K. Vaughan talked comics with Vox.

At the LA Review of Books: an interview with Susan Rukeyser.

New nonfiction from Kathryn Schulz at The New Yorker.

Laura Miller on the novels of Anthony Trollope.

At Pitchfork: thoughts on this year’s song of the summer.

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