At the Barnes & Noble Review, thoughts on Sharma Shields’s new novel.

Cynthia Cruz wrote about melancholy for the Poetry Foundation.

Pitchfork reviewed Priests’ album The Seduction of Kansas.

At Entropy, thoughts on duncan b. barlow’s A Dog Between Us.

Left Bank Books has re-opened in the West Village.

Kirkus reviewed Nicholas Mancusi’s forthcoming novel A Philosophy of Ruin.

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