CrimeReads has published an excerpt from Laird Barron’s new novel Blood Standard.

At Bookmunch, thoughts on Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s Call Me Zebra.

Hyperallergic delved into a new show of outsider at at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

There’s new nonfiction by Steve Erickson at McSweeney’s.

At the Los Angeles Times, thoughts on a Walt Whitman-inspired opera.

Levi Stahl recommended some books at the Seattle Review of Books.

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