Caryn Rose revisited the Patti Smith Group’s Easter for Pitchfork.

Kate Zambreno was interviewed at the Brooklyn Rail.

Mike Young has written a tribute to Denis Johnson at HTML Giant.

Christian Lorentzen’s tribute to Johnson at Vulture is also well worth reading.

At Guernica, an excerpt from Holly FitzGerald’s Ruthless River.

Josephine Livingstone on the contentious history of arts funding in the United States.

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