At NPR, Ilana Masad reviewed Hiro Arikawa’s The Travelling Cat Chronicles.

The winners of this year’s Kirkus Prize have been announced.

Kaitlyn Greenidge recommended books in an excerpt from the anthology Well-Read Black Girl.

Strange Horizons interviewed Saladin Ahmed.

Jes Skolnik wrote about the music of SRSQ.

Ed Brubaker talked about writing for comics and television at GQ.

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