At Bookforum, Victor LaValle reviewed Marlon James’s forthcoming novel.

Fiction Writers Review reviewed Lydia Kiesling’s The Golden State.

At CrimeReads, considering The Great Gatsby as noir.

There’s new work by Jace Clayton at BOMB.

Chuck Wendig wrote about the way writers talk about books.

Words Without Borders explored the challenges of translating humor.

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