John Freeman talked with Mohsin Hamid about his new novel Exit West.

Jason Diamond wrote an essay about Florida and the music of Against Me! for Brooklyn Magazine.

At the Los Angeles Review of Books, a look at Garth Greenwell and Garrard Conley’s recent tour of North Carolina indie bookstores.

At Longreads, an excerpt from Colin Dickey’s Ghostland.

J. David Osborne interviewed Constance Ann Fitzgerald on his podcast.

VQR has new fiction from Elliott Holt.

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