Afternoon Bites: Péter Nádas, Molly Gaudry, the emotional maturity of superheroes, and more

Joshua Cohen on Péter Nádas: “He’s completed, or rather incompleted, an ornate secular monstrosity that must rank as one of his country’s strangest, most ambitious literary achievements.”

• At the Voice: Christopher R. Weingarten on the pigfuck revival. (See also: Pop. 1280, The Men, etc.)

• Molly Gaudry on the assemblage of a new chapbook featuring “30 local city papers (a.k.a. art zines) from 30 different cities.”

• Ta-Nehisi Coates looks at superheroes and emotional maturity.

• Ben Whishaw drops some details about the upcoming Cloud Atlas adaptation.