Eric Dolphy, Out to Lunch! (Blue Note, 1964)

Margaret Atwood

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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