TODAY: In 1916, Rubén Darío, father of the modernismo literary movement, dies.
- Is the best millennial story a noir story? On Search Party and life in uncertain times. | Literary Hub
- Sexier, scarier, better: on discovering a lost version of the original Dracula. | Literary Hub
- Advice from a better president: on the eerie relevance of Washington’s farewell address. | Literary Hub
- Warsan Shire and Beyoncé are the heroes we need right now. | Literary Hub
- A running list of titles made great again by you know who.
- “I grew up inhabiting a myth in which I was both enforcer and actor: the myth of a single and unique America.” Raoul Peck’s introduction to I Am Not Your Negro. | Guernica
- “The man was elected President. Ipso facto, America is this, we are this.” Rabih Alameddine on the aftermath of the election. | The New Yorker
- On “France’s booming decline industry” which explores “the country’s (and the West’s) failings and France’s obsession with those failings.” | The New York Times
- Beyond the “New Weird”: On China Miéville’s “riotously uncategorizable fiction.” | Public Books
- Food provides the balance between surrealism and normalcy: On Haruki Murakami’s food writing. | The Awl
- Two new publishers—La Casita Grande and Lil’ Libros—have launched in response to the “growing demand for books by Latino authors that are more varied than those currently being published.” | Publishers Weekly
- “.45 inches to accommodate my own colonizing tongue/which licks the wound clean” A poem by Matthew Whitley. | n+1
