Weekend Reading List
From the legacy of Harper Lee to new poetry by Fred Moten: a round-up of the best things we’ve read online this week
From the legacy of Harper Lee to new poetry by Fred Moten: a round-up of the best things we’ve read online this week
- Rock band, art collective and ‘mysterious cult’ The Residents speak to The Quietus about their 40-year career.
- In The New Yorker, John Ashbery writes about the late American poet Delmore Schwartz.
- Christian Lorentzen reports on the New Hampshire presidential primaries for the London Review of Books.
- In The New York Times Magazine, frieze contributor Ben Eastham profiles Heather Phillipson, ‘the woman bridging the divide between art and poetry’.
- Andrew Stefan Weiner looks at the cultural legacies of Pan-Arabism in Afterall Journal.
- At Brain Pickings, the only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf’s voice (plus transcription).
- An interview with Jacques Ranciere on the shifting politics of identity and religion taking place in France.
- Moira Donegan reviews Benjamin Crotty’s first feature film, Fort Buchanan (2014), for n+1.
- LitHub hosts two new poems by Fred Moten: ‘Stone Gas’ and ‘Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’’.
- Love, In Other Words: (1961), the first ever article by Harper Lee, who sadly passed away this week.