Kiese Laymon recommended books addressing social justice for NPR.

The NYPL assembled a list of Juneteenth resources.

Stereogum looked back at 20 years of Ted Leo’s album The Tyranny of Distance.

At the New Republic, a quartet of writers explored Janet Malcolm’s legacy.

Punk band Soul Glo just released a new EP.

The Rumpus talked fiction with Alex DiFrancesco.

At Asymptote, thoughts on The Membranes by Chi Ta-wei.

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