Helen Oyeyemi’s excellent Boy, Snow, Bird is reviewed in the Washington Post.

“[A]n exquisitely calibrated, deadpan-comic miniature…” David Edelstein reviewed Wes Anderson’s new film, The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Pitchfork has a lengthy feature on St. Vincent.

Tom Williams was interviewed at The Next Book Blog.

Our own Tobias Carroll reviewed Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon’s Nothing for the StarTribune.

Sarah Everton of Bleeding Rainbow delivers a fine dispatch from the world of barista-ing.

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