Ta-Nehisi Coates was among the winners at this year’s National Book Awards.

Thoughts on book lists and gender from Rebecca Solnit.

Here’s a fantastic essay from A.N. Devers.

Feel like reading an excerpt from Molly Crabapple’s forthcoming memoir?

Derek McCormack was interviewed at BOMB.

Brandon Hobson’s Desolation of Avenues Unknown was reviewed at 3:AM.

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