Hanif Abdurraqib wrote a powerful exploration of the life and music of Aretha Franklin.

Rebecca Solnit talked books with the New York Times Book Review.

Amanda Petrusich revisited the groundbreaking guitar work of Joseph Spence.

Catapult has published new nonfiction by Frances de Pontes Peebles.

At GQ, Lincoln Michel revisited David Fincher’s The Game.

There’s new writing by B.J. Hollars at The Rumpus.

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