Maud Newton pondered Laila Lalami’s new book.

No Borders Books is holding a pop-up later this month.

At On the Seawall, thoughts on a newly-translated Vladimir Sorokin collection.

Nina Renata Aron wrote about Moshtari Hilal’s Ugliness at Dirt.

Hearing Things explored a new edition of Wilco’s A Ghost Is Born.

Catherine Lacey revisited Middlemarch.

At Dusted, thoughts on the music of Drop Nineteens.

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