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

"It’s very hard to review one’s past without cheating a little": an interview with Simone de Beauvoir, who was born of Janaury 9th, 1908 The Paris Review
The Rastafari are more than Jamaica's tourist-friendly mascots: the anti-colonial, radical roots of the long-persecuted Rastafari movement The New York Review of Books
For modern couple Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, love was essential; monogamy was contingent The New Yorker
In The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir deals brilliantly with ambiguity Slate
How to write about Africa: "always use the word ‘Africa’ or ‘Darkness’ or ‘Safari’ in your title." Granta
On the eve of Obama's farewell speech, remembering George Washington's last address to the nation NPR

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