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

Marlene Dietrich, avid reader and annotator The New Yorker
Jason Stanley's 2015 How Propaganda Works is a timely warning about "mangled facts; false claims; and reductive, Manichaean storytelling." The New York Times
Rebecca Solnit looks onward to January 20th and back to America's unfinished civil wars Harper's
Pondering "the fragility of civil liberties" at the sites of Japanese-American internment camps Buzzfeed
Sneakers have always been political shoes The Atlantic
Sarah Nicole Prickett on growing up evangelical in London, Ontario, and losing her faith in Midland, Michigan The Towner
Richard Adams, interviewed: the author of the children's classic Watership Down passed away on December 27th, 2016 The Guardian
Novelist Ahmed Naji on being part of the "contradictory, vagabond, incongruous mosaic...of the greater Middle East" Arab Lit
"Last time we met we named all our favorite authors": poetry by Hsia Yu Asymptote

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