Hanif Abdurraqib wrote about protest chants at GEN.

The NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund is doing important work.

Feel like reading new fiction by Ilana Masad?

Literary Hub published an essay by Zaina Arafat.

Alexander Chee and Carmen Maria Machado wrote about restaurants in the New York Times.

Kirkus reviewed Jeremy Robert Johnson’s new novel.

At LitReactor, thoughts on the anthology Final Cuts. reviewed.

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