Weekend Reading List
From the Spiritualist origins of Ghostbusters to an interview with Luc Sante: what to read this weekend
From the Spiritualist origins of Ghostbusters to an interview with Luc Sante: what to read this weekend
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As attention turns to Rio for the Olympic games, Sebastião Ventura Pereira da Paixão reflects on Brazil’s complex relationship to capitalism.
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From the cloud stuidies of John Constable and J.M.W. Turner, to mapping out the Cloud – the renewed interest in field guides in our networked age.
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Who you gonna call? A medium, it would seem – the spiritualist origins of Ghostbusters.
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Investigating the ‘Trump Emotion Machine’: Lauren Berlant writes about the affective politics of the Republican presidential nominee.
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Robert Barry explores the work of legendary composer Bernie Krause, who is the subject of a new exhibition at Fondation Cartier, Paris
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What do we mean by ‘world literature’? Rebecca Walkowitz argues that fiction is always already translated.
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Who killed Victor Jara? The life and death of the man who gave voice to Salvador Allende’s Chile.
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Did dada lead to punk?
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As literary circles, like the art world, search out yet more forgotten or unseen gems, Alison Flood asks: are forgotten works really worth rediscovering?
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‘I often think of what I do as wide poems’ – Luc Sante interviewed.
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The late critic Bill Berkson on Lucas Cranach, Jasper Johns and posing naked for George Schneeman.
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Play it again, Ragnar. Tom Morton discusses repetition and humour in the work of Ragnar Kjartansson whose work is currently on show at the Barbican, London.
