At The Creative Independent, talking books with Lauren Oyler.

This year’s National Antiracist Book Festival will take place on April 24.

At PEN, an interview with poet Kayleb Rae Candrilli.

There’s a fundraising campaign up for a new journal of writing inspired by death and mortality.

Delving into the acclaimed new novel by Helen McClory.

At Pitchfork, Jenn Pelly wrote about the anniversary edition of Sharon Van Etten’s Epic.

Gabriel Blackwell has new writing at the Cleveland Review of Books.

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