There’s a new essay by Tommy Pico up now at Hazlitt.

Matthew Salesses wrote about art and authoritarianism.

At Nylon, thoughts on the year’s best nonfiction.

Barrelhouse talked poetry with Joanna C. Valente.

Carmen Maria Machado looked back on her year in books at The Millions.

Sufjan Stevens has a lot to say about Tonya Harding.

At Tor.com, thoughts on Megan Hunter’s The End We Start From.

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