At Electric Literature, the most surreal interview with Carmen Maria Machado you’re likely to read.

Ian MacAllen reviewed Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive at the Chicago Review of Books.

Matthew Keeley revisited Gene Wolfe’s opening sentences.

Karen Stefano was interviewed at Stand.

Jim Ruland explored the haunting crime fiction of J. David Osborne.

Current Affairs makes the case for the radical politics of the film UHF.

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