Weekend Reading List
From Nabokov's butterfly collection to the legacy of Kobe Bryant: the best things we've read this week
From Nabokov's butterfly collection to the legacy of Kobe Bryant: the best things we've read this week
- Catherine Buni and Soraya Chemaly consider how a history of online moderation has come to influence free speech.
- Stephanie La Cava talks to Flavin Judd and novelist Eileen Myles about life in Marfa, Texas.
- In the latest issue of The White Review, Orit Gat looks at artists' websites and the way that we interract with art online.
- In his review of Matthew G. Kirschenbaum’s new book, Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing, Dylan Hicks recalls the emergence of word processors (trust me).
- For BBC Culture, Kelly Grovier explores the thinking behind hanging art behind politicians.
- 'She had a reputation for being an aggressive drunk, and a habit of isolating herself.' Jenni Quilter looks at a new biography of the late American painter Grace Hartigan.
- John Jeremiah Sullivan considers on the tennis writing of David Foster Wallace, for the New Yorker.
- At New Republic, Laura Marsh looks at Vladimir Nabokov's butterfly collection.
- 'No one owns anyone’s culture, and to believe otherwise is to deprive us of the human fullness and richness we all deserve. ' George Packer on race, art and essentialism.
- ‘Late Kobe, like late Hemingway, was a throwback to himself’. Nikil Saval on the legacy one of NBA's all-time greatest characters (but definitely not the greatest player).
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