At Hazlitt, Jennifer Young on riots, fascism, and a town in upstate New York.

Bon Appetit has a new and timely essay from Rosie Schaap.

Roar has an excerpt from Esmé Weijun Wang’s The Border of Paradise.

The Chicago Review of Books has ten books recommended to get you through the first six months of the new administration.

There’s a new collaboration between Sasha Siegelbaum and Kate Axelrod at 7×7.

At Electric Literature, an update on the Detroit-based literary nonprofit Write A House.

Gabino Iglesias recommends great novels about cold weather.

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