At the New Republic, thoughts on Ursula K. Le Guin’s No Time To Spare.

Lisa Lucas talked books with Yahdon Israel on the latest episode of LIT.

Catapult has an essay by, and interview with, Maud Newton.

The Stranger has new fiction by Willie Fitzgerald.

Michaelangelo Matos on the massive musical influence of Holger Czukay.

Jim Ruland reviewed Brian Allen Carr’s new novel SIP.

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