Curating some of the best recent links across literature, philosophy, and the arts
This is the seventh in a weekly series that brings together the articles, reviews, interviews and miscellany that has caught my eye over the past seven days. Including: Stanley Kubrick’s annotated copy of Stephen King’s The Shining; a review of the new Angela Carter biography by Edmund Gordon; and why the Hallmark Card company owns thousands of priceless artworks. Take a look, and feel free to share!
Literature, Poetry, Theatre
- 500 years of Thomas More’s Utopia: A new edition from Verso
- The Letters of Samuel Beckett Volume IV review — ‘I work on’
- Jan Wilm discusses his recent book, The Slow Philosophy of J. M. Coetzee
- Tom McCarthy: “Don’t call me a British artist – I’m thoroughly European”
- Shirley Jackson in love and life, by Joyce Carol Oates
- Deborah Levy on writing, stamina, and attention
- The Seagull: Chekhov with a comic and contemporary twist
- The Invention of Angela Carter by Edmund Gordon review — far more than magic
- Angela Carter in Japan
- J. G. Ballard anticipating the future
- Stanley Kubrick’s annotated copy of Stephen King’s The Shining
- Rest in Power: Gloria Naylor, Author of The Women of Brewster Place, Has Died
- MLC Seminar: Writing the Marvelous: Surrealist Automatism and Collaboration
Art, Design, Photography
- Annie Leibovitz’s Work on ‘Women’ Is Never Done
- The Design Museum profiles Joy Division and Factory records graphic designer, Peter Saville
- At a Historic House in Harlem, Artists Weave the Past into the Present
- How the Surrealist Movement Shaped the Course of History
- Why the Hallmark Card Company Owns Thousands of Priceless Artworks
- A Rare Suite of Kandinsky’s Experimental Prints Goes on View
- Majestic, exhilarating and overpowering: Royal Academy’s Abstract Expressionism reviewed
Philosophy & Theory
- Women’s Studies, Gender Studies and Feminism
- Deconstruction: An American Tale
- Ray Monk on Wittgenstein’s grave
Music
- The new cool: how Kamasi, Kendrick and co gave jazz a new groove
- Read the Introduction and First Chapter of Brian Wilson’s Memoir
- Sothebys offers a chance to see David Bowie‘s art collection
- New documentary about the life of hard bop jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan
- Bob Koester opens new record store after Jazz Record Mart closes
Film & TV
- How Hollywood Whitewashed the Old West
- A rare shot behind-the-scenes of Ridley Scott’s Alien
- Stanley Kubrick’s annotated copy of Stephen King’s The Shining
News & Politics
- Pioneering feminist Gloria Steinem on why her work is not yet over
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Don’t let Britain be rebranded as a nation of bigots (John Harris)
- How Banning Books Marginalizes Children
- Why US President Barack Obama has written for The Economist
- For Britain’s ‘Brexit’ Bunch, the Party Just Ended
Miscellaneous
- Christopher Columbus never set foot on what is now mainland United States
- Sarah Crook reflects on what it costs early career researchers to wait years to hear whether journals want to publish their articles
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