Bookforum published an excerpt from Angela Davis’s Are Prisons Obsolete?

The Asbury Book Cooperative is holding a great event this Saturday and is matching donations to the Asbury Park Transformative Justice Project.

At Full Stop, thoughts on Matsuda Aoko’s Where the Wild Ladies Are.

Emily Temple was interviewed at BOMB.

At Literary Hub, some book recommendations from Rabih Alameddine.

Tor.com reviewed Tracy O’Neill’s new novel Quotients.

Ellen Birkett Morris shared a playlist at Largehearted Boy.

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