Thomas More’s Utopia, with contributions from China Miéville and Ursula K. Le Guin (Verso, 2016)

Stanley Kubrick (right) plays chess with George C. Scott on the set of Dr Strangelove: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Ursula K. Le Guin

Angela Carter in 1976. Photograph: Fay Godwin

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

• 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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