Sanjena Sathian discussed her debut novel and Philip Roth in a new interview.

There’s a massive fundraising effort underway to rebuild Gaza’s Samir Mansour Book Store.

At the AV Club, thoughts on the first collection of the comic Home Sick Pilots.

Selected Prose interviewed Ottessa Moshfegh.

Robert Christgau delved into Eric Weisbard’s Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music.

At Polygon, Ta-Nehisi Coates discussed his run on Black Panther.

Dustin Illingworth reviewed Sam Riviere’s novel Dead Souls at the New York Times.

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