Sarah Polley and Mary Harron are adapting Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace for Netflix.

Jillian Mapes on the new album from Mitski.

Lincoln Michel on memorable fictional towns.

Esmé Weijun Wang has a new column that just debuted at Catapult.

At Real Pants: delving into Kevin Maloney’s desk.

A look at highlights from Walter Mosley’s bibliography.

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