Porochista Khakpour discussed her new book Sick at Guernica.

Longreads wrote about The Blacklist, Michael A. Gonzales’s ongoing series of essays at Catapult.

Christian Lorentzen explored the fiction of Lydia Millet.

Mitchell S. Jackson reviewed Gregory Pardlo’s memoir for the New York Times.

Annie DeWitt talked with Maggie Nelson for The Paris Review.

Pitchfork wrote about new music by Anna Meredith.

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