At Longreads: fiction from Silvina Ocampo.

John Benditt assembled a playlist for his novel The Boatmaker.

New writing from Morgan Parker on criticism and race at Electric Literature.

Abraham Riesman on the history of the comic book character Harley Quinn.

Checking in with the band War on Women.

Steph Post talked books and cocktails with Entropy.

Noah Cicero and Juliet Escoria talked at Hobart.

Storychord has new fiction from Brittany Pyle.

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