Weekend Reading List
How does the devil take his tea? The week's best online reads
How does the devil take his tea? The week's best online reads
- At Film Comment, an interview with the Portuguese-American filmmaker Gabriel Abrantes.
- ‘I was fed by its vibration’ – writer and critic Luc Sante finds the New York of his youth in the fragments of his archive.
- As extreme conservatism tightens its grip on the Republican Party, we revisit Richard Hoftstadter’s landmark essay, The Paranoid Style in American Politics.
- Over at the New Inquiry, Aria Dean considers the racial tensions underlying the use of selfies in feminist art practices.
- Roberta Smith and Holland Cotter take an early look at the newly opened Met Breuer for the New York Times Magazine.
- Are the days of media plurality on the internet finally over?
- ‘When you say solidarity, I translate that into empathy.’ Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi talks to Seth Wheeler for The White Review.
- Andrew O’Hagan considers Jean Stein’s new stories of old Hollywood for the London Review of Books.
- A history of LA’s home of experimental cinema, Pasadena Filmforum.
- How does the devil take his tea? At home with the head of the Church of Satan.