AM Homes won the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Jen Doll on the quiet shame of being a half-reader at The Atlantic.

Laura Miller on why male critics can’t get their heads around Rachel Kushner’s success.

Win Bassett on O. Henry’s endings.

On Tao Lin’s “masterpiece.” 

Faulkner’s Mississippi home.

Ben Loory makes a mix of Melvins songs.

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