At Vox, thoughts on Meg Wolitzer’s The Female Persuasion.

The Paris Review has announced Emily Nemens as their new editor.

Sad musical news this week, as jazz great Cecil Taylor has died.

Sabina Murray and Ocean Vuong discussed questions of race and MFA workshops at Literary Hub.

There’s fiction by Carmen Maria Machado at Lightspeed.

The shortlist for this year’s Albertine Prize has been announced.

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