Curating some of the best recent links across literature, philosophy, and the arts
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