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

Peter Abrahams, an anti-imperialist South African novelist exiled in Jamaica, dies at 97 The New York Times
Steven Kinzer's The True Flag explains "the birth of American empire" NPR
James Baldwin and the "unbearable tension" between him and the Nation of Islam Catapult
Krys Lee, an "accidental activist" turned author, talks about her book How I Became a North Korean Guernica
"Quarantine" by Alix Ohlin: a story of how friends grow apart The New Yorker
An unpublished fairytale by Mark Twain titled "The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine"--his only surviving children's story--sees the light The Guardian
"Come girl, let's kick up a row" by Mrudula Bhavani: "Around us are Walls Rails Bridges Interrupted rivers Severed legs Unsold ice cream" Asymptote

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