Christian Lorentzen interviewed Elif Batuman at Vulture.

Fitzcarraldo has won the first Republic of Consciousness prize for publishing John Keene’s Counternarratives.

Checking in with Ursula K. Le Guin.

Jenn Pelly wrote about Arthur Russell and Buddhism for Pitchfork.

A film adaptation of Brit Bennett’s The Mothers is on the way.

At Literary Hub, ranking 75 covers of The Master and Margarita.

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