Good evening literary fans. Here's some literary news and commentary to add to your weekend reading list.

British Humiliation and ‘The Cursed Child’: On embarrassment as the quintessential British experience. (The Millions)
L.A. Pub Unveils New Imprint Honoring Harriet Tubman: Tsehai, a university press with an East African focus, launches a new space for African-American voices. (Publishers Weekly)
From Gladiator Duels To Caesar's Last Words: The Myths Of Ancient Rome: Historian Mary Beard debunks and demystifies ideas about ancient times. (NPR)
Burhan Sönmez: Two Istanbuls: The Kurdish-Turkish author tackles the anxieties and dualities of his country in his novel Istanbul Istanbul. (Guernica)
Punk's not dead: Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain and 'Please Kill Me': The iconic oral history of punk, revisited. (LA Times)
No Holds Barred: Fiction by award-winning Guatemalan novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa about a man who protests too much. (The White Review)
A Trickster Imagination: Helen Oyeyemi's short story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours thrives on playful ambiguity. (Los Angeles Review of Books)

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