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

Salvador Dalí's surrealist cookbook features illustrations and recipes of the opulent meals served at his dinner parties Food52
Is Colin Kaepernick's decision to protest being judged by the content of his character? N+1
How The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, a book of spirited Persian Islamic verse, laid the foundations of secularism The Nation
On Fannie Lou Hamer, a voting rights activist who was tired of being "threatened daily because we want to live as decent human beings" Lenny
Fiction by F.C. Brown Cloud: a scientist tries to prove that it's not inevitable that lobsters must die. The Offing
"Why bother with poetry?": Maybe it's one of "the necessary non-essentials that are themselves the mark of being human." The Times Literary Supplement
How Barry Jenkins' Moonlight illuminates black love instead of pathologizing it The Paris Review
Teju Cole talks politics...and life beyond politics Lithub

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