The Rumpus reviewed Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage.

David Naimon discussed a host of topics with Carmen Maria Machado.

At Largehearted Boy, Morgan Jerkins created a playlist for her book This Will Be My Undoing.

Helen Rosner explored the place where politics and the selling of spices meet.

Jaime Green wrote about Ursula K. Le Guin and empathy.

Aquarium Drunkard checked in with John Lurie.

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