Afternoon Bites: Johannes Anyuru, Sylvia Townsend Warner Revisited, Virginie Despentes, Lance Olsen’s Playlist, and More

At Asymptote Journal, thoughts on Johannes Anyuru’s novel They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears.

Bookmuch delved into a collection of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s fantasy stories.

At Longreads, Ayşegül Savas wrote about representation in Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch.

The Quietus reports on a campaign underway to preserve the home of filmmaker and writer Derek Jarman.

At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Jennifer Croft explored Virginie Despentes’s Vernon Subutex 1.

Largehearted Boy featured a playlist by Lance Olsen.

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