Teju Cole

Margaret Atwood

This is the first 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: an exclusive look inside the final volume of Samuel Beckett’s correspondence, a guide to david Bowie’s favourite books, and troubling news that Langston Hughes’ Harlem home is under threat. Take a look, and feel free to share!

Literature, Poetry, Theatre

• Dave Eggers on Trump, music, memoirs & Beckett
• Lauren Elkin on the flâneuse
• Walking, Thinking, and Improvisation
• William Gibson on Science Fiction
• Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale: Exploring Puritanism, Misogyny, Megalomania
• Beckett’s Letters: A Look Inside Vol. 4
• Colson Whitehead discusses his new novel, The Underground Railroad
• Save Langston Hughes‘ Harlem home from gentrification
• W. G. Sebald‘s friendship with two Jewish refugees
• For Sale: Truman Capote’s Cremains
• Q&A with Kafka/Walser translator Susan Bernofsky
• What doctors can learn from the arts
• Thomas Mann‘s home faces demolition
• Top 10 Seaside Novels
• Creating Kafka
• When Samuel Beckett travelled First-Class
• Follow Samuel Beckett on Twitter
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is 50
• Women are writing the best crime novels
• The Millions discuss ‘How to Write a Novel’
• Teju Cole: The Book That Changed My Life
• Supreme Court to Consider Legal Standard Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’

Art, Design, Photography

• Georgia O’Keefe, the painter who captured America
• Stories inspired by Edward Hooper (by Stephen King & Joyce Carol Oates)
• Photographer Amaal Said deconstructs tokenism of ‘women of colour’
• New research on the truth behind Van Gogh’s ear

Philosophy & Theory

• Philosopher Simon Critchley on Teaching
• How Rousseau‘s hypocrisy predicted Trump
• Nietzsche: Early Photographs

Music

• A Guide to David Bowie’s Favourite Books
• Paying Tribute to Rudy Van Gelder, Jazz Icon
• Miles Davis Quintet: A New Box-Set
• Geoffrey Smith on Sonny Rollins (Radio 3)
• Teju Cole’s Favourite Records

Film & TV

• Why Stranger Things is More Than ’80s Nostalgia
• Sean Young Polaroids from the set of Blade Runner
• David Lynch talks Coffee
• Philip Seymour Hoffman retrospective at NYC’s Museum of the Moving Image

News & Politics

• The New York Times seeks a Gender editor

Miscellaneous

• The art of handwriting
• Oliver Sacks’ Awakenings among best non-fiction

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