At Bookforum, a conversation with Jia Tolentino.

Electric Literature talked with Ibram X. Kendi.

At The Creative Independent, Katy Henriksen interviewed artist and curator Mike Calway-Fagen.

There’s new writing from Beach Sloth about the band mercvrial at Entropy.

At The MNT, Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado delved into Julian Voloj and Claudia Ahlering’s graphic novel Ghetto Brothers: Warrior to Peacemaker.

World Literature Today revisited two novels by Natalia Ginzburg.

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