Good evening literary fans. Here's what we read today that you should too.

Nadja Spiegelman: Growing up in the Age of Terror: A fourteen-year-old girl shows bravery in a world of terror. (Guernica)
Is JD Salinger's Franny and Zooey posturing or profound? (The Guardian)
Virginia Woolf’s Sister Steps Out Of Her Shadow And Into The Spotlight: A "long-overdue" exhibition will showcase the talented artist's work. (The Huffington Post)
Fences: A Brexit Diary: How Zadie Smith feels about Britain's recent withdrawal from the EU. (The NY Review of Books)
Vivian Gornick on In Search of Ali Mahmoud: An American Woman in Egypt (The Paris Review)
The Fabulist and Fantastic Edges of Contemporary Southern Women's Poetry: "How fantasy and fairy tales have influenced the poetry of Southern female poets." (Electric Lit)
Putting Down Strangers: Adam Thorpe on Brexit. (Granta)
A Novelist's Wartime Education: Nick Paumgarten writes about his friend and writer, Whitney Terrell (The New Yorker)
This Librarian Handing Out Books At The RNC Wants To "Make America Read Again" (Bustle)
Five Public Cases: In response to the question "What is poetry for?" (The Paris Review)

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