At Bookforum, thoughts on Claudia Rankine’s new book.

This list of voting rights organizations is well worth checking out.

At N+1, Marco Roth wrote a remembrance of Randall Kenan.

Pitchfork explored the music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland.

The Los Angeles Review of Books reviewed Raven Leilani’s novel Luster.

At Dusted, thoughts on Sufjan Stevens’s album The Ascension.

The Comics Journal published an excerpt from Robert Elder’s Hemingway in Comics.

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