Slate has new fiction from Jeff VanderMeer.

Lauren Elkin talked with the people who run Shakespeare & Co. for The Paris Review.

Scott Crawford assembled a Spoke-inspired playlist for Largehearted Boy.

Zachary Lipez talked with Tinariwen.

Literary Hub’s new column about librarians debuts this week.

New music is on the way from The New Year.

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