This month brings an excellent look back at two beloved works from Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness and Always Coming Home.

Bookforum reviewed Deborah Baker’s Love, War, and the End of Empire.

The New York Public Library is now issuing Lou Reed library cards.

Englis hKills Review talked with the people behind Jersey City’s Pershing Fields Garden Friends Benefit Reading series.

At Tiny Mix Tapes, an interview with Megan Mitchell of Cruel Diagonals.

Réka Mán-Várhegyi was interviewed at Words Without Borders.

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