At Vulture, thoughts on the writings of Ismail Kadare.

Rahawa Haile has a new essay at Longreads about Black Panther and global politics.

Chapter 16 wrote about the founding of the Center for Southern Literary Arts.

At Electric Literature, writers discuss the advantages of writing speculative memoirs.

Michael Barron has a report from this year’s PEN America Literary Awards.

Still Single reviewed the new album by Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys.

At Tor.com, a review of Ned Beauman’s new novel Madness is Better Than Defeat.

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