At The Paris Review, an excerpt from Akwaeke Emezi’s new book.

The NYPL assembled a list of Juneteenth resources.

Minorities in Publishing revisited an unaired television segment on James Baldwin.

Aimee Bender recommended books at BookMarks.

Necessary Fiction reviewed Lana Bastašić’s Catch the Rabbit.

There’s new writing by Rax King at Electric Literature.

Ploughshares published a new essay by Elizabeth Gonzalez James.

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