At Tor.com, Karin Tidbeck delved into the idea of the almost-human in fiction.

Jordan A. Rothacker reviewed Erika T. Wurth’s Buckskin Cocaine at Cleaver.

Neil Gaiman wrote about the new album by The Breeders.

At the Times, Alexander Chee reviewed Patrick Nathan’s Some Hell.

Quicksand’s Slip is now 25 years old. Well then.

What are the words that stump food writers?

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