The Verge makes the case for why you should be reading JY Yang.

X-R-A-Y published a new interview with Noah Cicero.

There’s new fiction by Melissa Ximena Golebiowski at Catapult.

At jmww, thoughts on Anne Valente’s new novel.

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright talked dogs with Argos & Artemis.

At Pitchfork, Andy Beta revisited Stevie Wonder’s Stevie Wonder’s Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants.

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