Good evening readers. Here's your round-up of today's must-read literary news, commentary and fiction.

"Locker room banter is just another name for the patriarchy," says Eileen Myles Lithub
As Larissa Pham wrote her first novel "Fantasian," she had to re-learn to write like herself Catapult
A well-meaning French liberal sees her multicultural neighborhood rocked by 9/11 malaise The Los Angeles Review of Books
Young gay people in Nigeria ponder how to define Afro-Modernism while they struggle to get by Granta
"I don’t know why some people are so insistent about the fact that they don’t believe in ghosts, anyway": chasing wisps of the past through New York bars. The Paris Review
An oral history of death as seen by death row wardens, activists, mourners and other "specialists." The Guardian
"Nasty nasty boys don't mean a thing": the etymology and history of the loaded word Donald Trump used in the third debate. The Atlantic
Anita Raja on how the act of translation changed her as a person. Asymptote
Fear and loathing in Singapore in Sa'ede Buang's "The Withered Cherry Tree." Words Without Borders

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