Music and Literature reviewed Olivia Laing’s novel Crudo.

Gabino Iglesias reviewed Greg Santos’s Blackbirds at PANK.

At Pitchfork, thoughts on Tim Mohr’s new history of East German punk.

LitReactor interviewed Lisa Marie Basile.

Mark Haber discussed Bernardo Esquinca’s The Owls Are Not What They Seem.

Hyperallergic explored the contemporary resonances of Jason Lutes’s Berlin.

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