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

National Book Awards 2016: read the acceptance speeches from winning authors, who address race in post-election America Vulture
National Book Awards celebrated black authors taking on America’s troubled relationship with race Los Angeles Times Books
“Chris Kraus, Female Antihero”: a profile of the daring essayist and author of feminist cult-classic I Love Dick The New Yorker
10 contemporary novels by and about Muslims: from Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account to Rabih Alameddine’s An Unnecessary Woman Lit Hub
Not hot, not bothered: the most cringe-worthy sex writing of 2016, according to The Literary Review New York Magazine
Taking to the streets: Wei Tchou joins anti-Trump protests in NYC, finding “visceral solidarity” and “relentless anxiety” The Paris Review
What does Zadie Smith look for in art? “Intellectual, emotional, philosophical, religious, existential feels” Lenny
Blood of the Dawn: Claudia Salazar Jiménez’s debut novel “never blinks, never lets the reader blink, until the terrifying last words” NPR

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