The Brooklyn Rail has an excerpt up from Harry Mathews’s novel The Solitary Twin.

Chelsea Hodson wrote about art for Frieze.

At The Baffler, a review of Zadie Smith’s new essay collection.

Rumaan Alam has a new books-related position at the New York Times.

Brandon Stosuy has some thoughts on the end of Slayer.

At Literary Hub, thoughts on the defanging of dystopian lit.

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