Jeff VanderMeer reviewed Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Book of Joan for the New York Times.

Hua Hsu wrote about the newly-reissued devotional music of Alice Coltrane.

Publishers Weekly on Eugene Lim’s forthcoming novel Dear Cyborgs.

Ned Raggett on the Cure’s Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me at 30.

Casey N. Cep wrote about new books from Patricia Lockwood and Macy Halford.

At Billboard, a look back at the music of Arto Lindsay.

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