Lit List: Friday November 11, 2016

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

• Rest in Peace, Leonard Cohen: a tribute to the musician who reinvented songwriting, and himself, right up until the end Rolling Stone
• Songs of solidarity: the healing power of music on the week we need it most The New Yorker
• Art after Trump: how arts helps us process and give shape to our feelings with grace Lit Hub
• The American Nightmare: Adam Shatz explains our new reality, and the end of “a certain idea of America, as a model of democracy and freedom” London Review of Books
• “Margaret Atwood is Everywhere”: the acclaimed writer’s work extends beyond the page with screen adaptations Signature Reads
• A new three-volume biography of Franz Kafka digs deep, uncovering a “new and surprising relevant” literary figure The Economist
• Night of the Animals: Bill Broun’s new novel is “a tale of one man’s odyssey to free the animals in the London Zoo” The Millions
• Belle Boggs on The Art of Waiting, her new book of essays on infertility and “the unfulfilled longing for a child” The Rumpus
• Artists react to Trump: a “wound too fresh” but “a chance for catharsis” ArtNet