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

Another Day in the Death of America: Gary Younge dedicates a book to ten people under 20 who died of gun violence on a single day in 2013. The London School of Economics Review of Books
Jelani Cobb: the results of this election are a repudiation of everything Barack Obama stands for New Yorker
Jelani Cobb's remarks to LSP about the tenuousness of America's 'perfect union' at Festival Albertine LSP
Kate Zambreno, the author of Heroines and other works of feminist criticism, on her pre-election malaise about America's future Guernica
Literary comics that will entertain you without dumbing you down Lithub
No More Heroes: why the idealism of individuals bent on being saviors won't save anybody The New Inquiry
Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad is a painful but illuminating reminder of the brutality of American history The Guardian
Why we still need poetry now more than ever The Atlantic

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