At Bookforum, an interview with Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi.

Words Without Borders is holding its Virtual Gala next month.

The Beat talked crime comics with Brian Michael Bendis.

4Columns delved into Dennis Cooper’s novel I Wished.

Asymptote Journal interviewed After the Sun author and translator Jonas Eika and Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg.

LitReactor offered some recommendations for Banned Books Week.

The New Yorker pondered Joy Williams’s new novel.

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