Culture Digest

Charlie Fox on a new translation of Hervé Guibert's chronicle of love, lust and drug-addled longing

From existentialist heartthrobs to the end of existence: what to read this weekend

From art under apartheid to a new novel from Walt Whitman: what to read this weekend

Two of the most interesting films from this year's Berlinale festival were created by alumni of Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab

From the Jannis Kounellis work that nobody wanted to Andrew Motion's defence of sane poets: what to read this weekend

From Umberto Eco on fascism to Thomas Pynchon’s stand-in: what to read this weekend

From Alexander Kluge on poetry to Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism: what to read this weekend

Could online communication provide a new model for contemporary writing? Patrick Langley on two debut novels from George Saunders and Samanta Schweblin

How the volatile political climate in the US might influence this year’s voting

From modern art as a torture technique to transgression in grime: what to read this weekend

Satirical TV and the importance of being offended

From Sergei Eisenstein's erotica to ideas for a pneumatic parliament: what to read this weekend

From Frantz Fanon’s hidden humanism to medieval fan fiction: what to read this weekend.

From Anthony Burgess being bitchy to a primer for Xenofeminism: what to read this weekend

From Robert Walser's art criticism to 'microbial dark matter': what to read this weekend

From the perversity of suburbia to the politics of partying: what to read this weekend

The re-release of Allan Sekula’s seminal book critiquing the bond between capitalism and representations of material culture

From Beethoven's lesbianism to the precarious foundations of political philosophy: what to read this weekend

From the many unpublished obituaries of Fidel Castro to the architecture of Dubai: what to read about this weekend

Hosting and hospitality at the Delfina Foundation