BY Paul Clinton in Culture Digest | 12 FEB 16

Weekend Reading List

From the literature of drones to the confusions of criticism: a round-up of the best things we’ve read online this week

BY Paul Clinton in Culture Digest | 12 FEB 16

In The New Yorker, writer and actor Cirocco Dunlap examines the current tug of love between New York and LA.
Eminent sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, who turns 90 this year, talks to El Pais about the trap of social media.
Writing in the London Review of Books, Jeremy Harding looks at the ironies of diacritical marks and why the French have said goodbye to the circumflex.
The Guardian’s theatre critic Michael Billington explores the legacy of arguably the most influential living theatre director, Peter Brook.
Poet and writer Eileen Myles on the pain of waiting for love to arrive.
An interview in the LA Review of Books with one of the founders of ‘Streetopia Festival’, San Francisco, a ‘grassroots arts biennial’ that influenced figures such as Chris Kraus, Sarah Schulman, Rebecca Solnit.
Novelist and critic Geoff Dyer on photographing economic inequality.
From the current issue of Lapham’s Quarterly: science-fact and science-fiction in the history of drone warfare.
In the Huffington Post, Professor Amelia Jones discusses how feminist and transgender politics can reshape art history.
In an excerpt from his new book, Better Living Through Criticism, that is hosted at LitHub, The New York Times film critic A.O. Scott asks himself: what is criticism?

PAUL CLINTON

Paul Clinton is a writer, curator and editor based in London, UK. He is a lecturer in curating at Goldsmiths, University of London.