The Cleveland Review of Books delved into Namwali Serpell’s Stranger Faces.

Always worth checking in with what the Brooklyn Book Bodega is up to.

The “fourth Beastie Boy,” Ricky Powell, has died at the age of 59.

Sarah Rose Etter interviewed Melissa Broder at BOMB.

At Big Other, news of the recipients of this year’s Literary Citizenship Awards.

Bandcamp Daily has news on a reissued Ennio Morricone soundtrack.

Sylvain Neuvel wrote about identity, genetics, and fiction.

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