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

How Ayelet Waldman changed her life for the better by micro-dosing LSD Bookforum
John Berger (1926-2017), a beloved critic credited with popularizing art history and theory, snuck Marxism into his analyses The Los Angeles Review of Books
Yiyun Li describes the years-long genesis of her short story "On the Street Where You Live" The New Yorker
Annette Gordon on the rhetoric of white racial solidarity at the heart of the American Revolution The New York Review of Books
When George Plimpton and Ernest Hemingway watched an execution in Cuba, and why the CIA helped fund the Paris Review Guernica
Books to get you through 2017: a selection of "good books for bad times." Mask Magazine

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