Richard Hell’s novel Godlike has just been re-released with a new afterword by New York Review Books. Andrew Holter spoke to Hell on his literary trajectory as a novelist and street poet, the sometimes-guiding examples of Rimbaud and (Tom) Verlaine, various noms de plume, the New York School poets, and his fearlessness of influence.

Andrew Holter interviews Mitchell Abidor on Abidor’s new book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary, out from Pluto Press. “It seems like we in the English-speaking world, at least, have misunderstood some pretty important things about him”—including what Abidor argues was his late-life turn to reactionary anti-communism.