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

Fiction by Stephen Dixon: a man imagines that this time things will be different Harper's
The cult of Santa Muerte, an ancient harbinger of death The Revealer
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, a beloved YA cult classic, gets a trailer Variety
The naked statues of Trump that have been popping up everywhere are actually part of a long intellectual tradition The National Book Review
"A home for black poetry": a long-time member of Cave Canem reflects on the twenty-year legacy of one of an important pre-Internet space for young black writers. Poetry Foundation
Karan Mahajan on the ways India's millenia-old intellectual history has been weaponized for political gain The New Yorker
Why at the twilight of the Obama years, James Baldwin's words ring truer than ever Guernica

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