Afternoon Bites: My Bloody Valentine’s Latest, Marnie Stern’s Dog, J Church’s Legacy, and More

So hey, My Bloody Valentine’s new album came out over the weekend. Ned Raggett has some initial thoughts on it, as do numerous editors at SPIN.

Looking at race and class in Chris Kraus’s Summer of Hate.

Did the New York Review of Books have the best first issue ever?

Remembering J Church at the AV Club.

An interview with Marnie Stern’s dog.

Our own Tobias Carroll looks at Sean Ferrell’s Man in the Empty Suit.

The February issue of decomP is up.

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