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

The charismatic mysteries of the Voynich Manuscript: what the unknown can teach us about truth The New Yorker
Healing divisions with empathy: Gabrielle Bellot grapples with fascism ascendant Lit Hub
Notes on the Cinematograph: Dennis Lim reflects on Bressonian style as a "forceful act of resistance" Book Forum
"Music is a weapon": on the depth of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's Afrobeat 3:AM Magazine
Music for nostalgia: a John Hughes-inspired, ultimate teen-movie mixtape Electric Literature
Rethinking the book list: "The Sixty Best Books by Women Every Man Should Read (But Could Always Ignore and Stick to Philip Roth)" The Times Literary Supplement
Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? Kathleen Collins lived a rich life, and these newly published stories are a testament to the "directions she might have taken had she lived" The New York Times
Your "Moment of Zen" is in: Chris Smith's oral history reveals how, for Jon Stewart and his team, life at "The Daily Show" was "neither glamorous nor debauched" The Washington Post

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