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

Barack Obama's thousands of speeches paint a picture of America that America has not lived up to N+1
Sci-fi in China goes as far back as Jules Verne, and now those works are coming to American readers. Asia Times
In Mexican modernist art, a "fine and decadent abuse" of European aesthetics and a mockery of death Hyperallergic
When adaptations get too clever for their own good: "What I want from a Sherlock Holmes adaptation is Holmes and Watson solving crimes together." Lithub
Roxane Gay talks with NPR's Audie Cornish about Difficult Women and difficult men NPR
From acid to Adderall, how each generation gets the drugs it deserves Aeon
An old woman extends a strange welcome in a poem by Jacob Shores-Argüello Poetry Foundation
Samantha Schweblin's novel "Fever Dream" instills a sense of mysterious horror The New Yorker
How Puccini has been appropriated by Donald Trump, as if to make what is old new again MTV

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