Teju Cole on politics, Ionesco, and the normalization of the horrifying.

John Edgar Wideman talked with NPR about his new book.

Emily Temple assembled a reading list of books about resistance.

Sarah Weinman on Leonard Cohen, at the New Republic.

There’s new writing from Lisa Locascio at Entropy.

Marc Masters revisited the Minutemen’s Double Nickels on the Dime for Pitchfork.

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