A literary reaction to George Floyd's death

Those of you moved to explore diverse voices and the issues facing them have likely found no shortage of must-read lists.

And if not, here are submissions from the Guardian, TIME, USA TODAY, Esquire, and the Chicago Public Library, just to name a few recent ones.

Additionally, the following extremely topical stories popped up in our RSS feed, and we wanted to make sure you saw them as well:

• NPR reviews the new novel The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, a tale of African-American twin sisters who process their light skin tone very differently.

• The New York Times examines what the rise in audiobooks has meant for narrators who aren’t white.

• Three Minneapolis literary agents have resigned in opposition to their employer’s tweets about the protests over George Floyd’s death, reports Publishers Weekly.

• And over a hundred African writers have co-signed an open letter of support for the Black Lives Matter movement in the face of several high-profile deaths of African-Americans at the hands of police officers.