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

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Rebecca Solnit invites Trump back to his diverse hometown of New York City (Lit Hub)
"Islandia": Austin Tappan Wright's forgotten, imaginative novel (The New Yorker)
Bibliotherapy: James McWilliams on the paradoxical nature of therapeutic reading (The Millions)
Pull Me Under: Kelly Luce's suspense novel "gets more right about women than so many others" (NPR)
"On Homesickness": Francesca Mari on embracing nostalgia and longing "for something that no longer exists" (The Paris Review)
How Thomas De Quincey legitimized our fascination with murderers (New Republic)
Escapism at its finest: the best new science fiction and fantasy novels this month (The Washington Post)

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