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

2016, worst year ever? Not so fast. The New Yorker
Muntazer al-Zaidi threw a shoe at George W. Bush eight years ago. This is why. The Guardian
On Caravaggio, the groundbreaking painter whose style ‘belonged not to him, but to nature’ The London Review of Books
Portrait of the Alcoholic Three Weeks Sober: Poetry by Kaveh Akbar. The Nashville Review
Valeria Luiselli profiles a female FARC guerilla dealing with the end of an era. Guernica
Don't touch black people's hair: comedian Phoebe Robinson explores hair-specific micro-aggressions and much more in her first book. The Los Angeles Review of Books
A Bell, Still Unrung: Poetry by Safiya Sinclair Academy of American Poets

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