UPDATE: Turns out the other big news this week (revealed after Notable Releases went live) is that Kendrick Lamar surprise-released a new album! Read my first-impression review.
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Margaret Talbot joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2004, writing Profiles and also dispatches and commentary on legal issues, cultural history, social movements, and indie music.