New poetry from Ocean Vuong at the New York Times.

At Brooklyn Magazine, Helena Fitzgerald wrote about voyeurism, cities, and social media.

Neil Gaiman’s next book will be a retelling of Norse mythology.

Here’s new nonfiction from Maura Johnston.

Kevin Nguyen on the music of Dev Hynes.

Wabash has a new essay from Matthew Vollmer.

Atlas Obscura explores the strange world of weather sticks.

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