Hazlitt talked with Scaachi Koul; Koul also recommended books for dads to read.

Chinelo Okparanta recommended West African fiction about relationships.

There’s an except from Julie Buntin’s Marlena at Guernica.

Michael Schaub reviewed Daisy Johnson’s Fen at NPR.

Writers on the Job has new nonfiction by Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons.

LitReactor reviewed Jonathan Reiss’s Getting Off.

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