At the Chicago Review of Books, thoughts on Dantiel W. Moniz’s Milk Blood Heat.

CLMP assembled a Black History Month reading list.

Hazlitt talked with Let the Lord Sort Them author Maurice Chammah.

Slate explored the recent controversy around the latest issue of Poetry.

Aquarium Drunkard discussed new music from Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds.

Tashi Dorji and Aaron Turner talked music at BOMB.

Ears to Feed talked with the people behind Trouble In Mind Records.

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