Curating some of the best recent links across literature, philosophy, and the arts
This is the second in a new weekly series that brings together the articles, reviews, interviews and miscellany that has caught my eye over the past seven days. Including: a look at the first ever reviews of James Joyce’s Ulysses, articles on HBO’s new crime drama The Night Of, and over 500 hours of jazz. Take a look, and feel free to share!
Literature, Poetry, Theatre
- Contemporary literature and the archive (call for papers)
- The worst jobs in literature
- A recent story by Don DeLillo, Sine Cosine Tangent
- Ursula Le Guin inducted into the Library of America
- New James Baldwin documentary coming soon
- Michiko Kakutani on John Le Carré‘s life as a spy
- New voices in Vietnamese literature
- How old is Hamlet?
- Queering Gender, Queering Genre
- Colm Tóibín visits Oscar Wilde’s prison cell
- 21 great books written by people of colour
- 10 plays to read like they’re novels: Beckett to O’Neill
- Will Murakami win the Nobel Prize this year? The odds…
- Shakespeare & Co’s archives
- Margaret Atwood returns to comic roots with new novel
- Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale: Misogyny and Megalomania
- The truth about the Hemingway Heist
- Artists hope to turn Langston Hughes‘ home in Harlem cultural centre
- Catch-22 and the art of unjoking the joke
- New HomePlace arts centre to celebrate Seamus Heaney
- The first reviews of James Joyce’s Ulysses
- 100 must-read plays not by Shakespeare
- Lydia Davis on books she would like to see translated
- On Jean Rhys‘ After Leaving Mr Mackenzie
- Utopia at 500
- The British Association for Modernist Studies Essay Prize 2016!
- How Borges taught me to embrace my Jewish heritage
Art, Design, Photography
- M.C. Escher makes his final artwork in the Adventures in Perception
- Bowie and the Blackstar Artwork
- Nicole Eisenmann and the resurrection of figurative painting
- Video of Alberto Giacometti working in his studio
Philosophy & Theory
- Walter Benjamin: Conversations with Brecht
- Walter Benjamin and Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus
- Michel Foucault: Beyond Good and Evil documentary
Music
- The composers of quiet.
- Opera based on Thomas Bernhard’s novel, The Loser
- 508 hours of jazz recorded by Rudy Van Gelder
- Björk on her experimental new VR show
- 33 songs that document feminist punk
- Wanted: Dean of the School of Jazz at NYC’s New School
Film & TV
- Top 11 female film characters of all time
- The Night Of and the symbolic meaning of eyes
- On John Turturro’s closing argument in The Night Of
- The Night Of as a piercing glimpse at the justice system
- Robbie Collin on the late Gene Wilder
- On Werner Herzog’s new documentary about the internet
- What HBO’s The Night Of has in common with David Lynch’s Eraserhead
- Exclusive trailer for new David Lynch documentary, The Art Life
News & Politics
- Trump, the University of Chicago, and the collapse of public language
- Plane rides and presidential transparency
- Remembering Belzec
- Gender bias in academic conference ratings revealed
- The PhD student who makes money writing erotic novels
- The parents who won’t let their children study literature
- Alabama to jail those with overdue library books
Miscellaneous
- Umberto Eco‘s guide to writing a thesis
- 80 books for young feminists
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