At the Los Angeles Review of Books, a very personal look back at short stories by Russian émigrés.

The great Brooklyn DIY space Silent Barn is running an urgent fundraiser.

Hyperallergic explored the contemporary relevance of political poetry.

Jason Diamond wrote about the greatness of Publix sandwiches.

Full Stop reviewed Suzanne Burns’s collection The Veneration of Monsters.

Pitchfork on the year’s best metal albums.

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