Weekend Reading List
From Alexander Kluge on poetry to Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism: what to read this weekend
From Alexander Kluge on poetry to Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism: what to read this weekend
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‘In these deserts of information we need some oasis, and that’s what the lyric is.’ Alexander Kluge and Ben Lerner talk writing and poetry.
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Making fun of understanding: the forgotten novels of Henry Green make a virtue of misreading.
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From frieze.com: associate editor Pablo Larios reports on new, old and reopened spaces in Hong Kong.
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#WhoIsBurningBlackChurches: the history of arson attacks on the African American community.
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‘The grand political stage and intimate life are inseparable’: revisiting Phillip Roth’s The Plot Against America (2004).
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From the frieze archives: how can art respond to the ongoing, and ever worsening, refugee crisis?
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What’s in a name? The politics of pronouns.
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The Evidence of Things Not Seen: a new film about James Baldwin looks at race and representation.
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‘We have witnessed the abolition of the human’ – Hannah Arendt’s writing on totalitarianism hits the bestseller lists.
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We are all wounded: on a peculiar image of injury in medieval manuscripts.
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A new biography of Jean Cocteau traces the artist’s search for a ‘work which devours its author’.
