Asymptote reviewed Manaschi by Hamid Ismailov.

At PEN, a report on the effects of educational gag offers.

Guernica published an excerpt from Kyle Lucia Wu’s Win Me Something.

Bill Callahan and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy are collaborating on a record.

Fiction Writers Review delved into Lejla Kalamujić’s Call Me Esteban.

At the New York Times, Ezra Klein talked with Tressie McMillan Cottom and Kiese Laymon.

Can a comic book evoke a basement show? This one does.

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