If you’d like to hear the latest from Swans, To Be Kind, NPR has you covered.

“A gripping psychological portrait of how trauma remakes the body to respond only to itself…” That’d be The AV Club on Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State.

Talking Julian Schnabel at Hyperallergic.

Don Draper, meet Portnoy’s Complaint.

Maria Sherman recommends ten Mexican punk bands.

Storychord has new writing from Sean H. Doyle.

The time Nick Cave, “Weird Al” Yankovic, and more covered “Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two).”

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