Slate has new fiction from Jeff VanderMeer.
Lauren Elkin talked with the people who run Shakespeare & Co. for The Paris Review.
Scott Crawford assembled a Spoke-inspired playlist for Largehearted Boy.
Zachary Lipez talked with Tinariwen.
Literary Hub’s new column about librarians debuts this week.
New music is on the way from The New Year.
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