At the New York Review of Books, Namwali Serpell reviewed Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s Kintu.

Brandon Taylor has new fiction at Joyland.

Maria Sherman wrote about Downtown Boys for ROAR.

Hazlitt has an excellent new essay by Helena Fitzgerald.

Sheila Heti wrote about Fleur Jaeggy’s fiction for The New Yorker.

At The Awl, a look at what’s wrong with conspiracy theory television.

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