By Paul Clinton
Dexter Sinister, diagram showing statement of intent for the Serving Library Company Inc., 2010. Courtesy Serving Library, New York.
Photographing inequality, the literature of drones & the confusions of criticism: a round-up of the best things we’ve read online this week
- In The New Yorker, writer and actor Cirocco Dunlap examines the current tug of love between New York and LA.
- Eminent sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, who turns 90 this year, talks to El Pais about the trap of social media.
- Writing in the London Review of Books, Jeremy Harding looks at the ironies of diacritical marks and why the French have said goodbye to the circumflex.
- The Guardian’s theatre critic Michael Billington explores the legacy of arguably the most influential living theatre director, Peter Brook.
- Poet and writer Eileen Myles on the pain of waiting for love to arrive.
- An interview in the LA Review of Books with one of the founders of ‘Steetopia Festival’, San Francisco, a ‘grassroots arts biennial’ that influenced figures such as Chris Kraus, Sarah Schulman, Rebecca Solnit.
- Novelist and critic Geoff Dyer on photographing economic inequality.
- From the current issue of Lapham’s Quarterly: science-fact and science-fiction in the history of drone warfare.
- In the Huffington Post, Professor Amelia Jones discusses how feminist and transgender politics can reshape art history.
- In an excerpt from his new book, Better Living Through Criticism, that is hosted at LitHub, The New York Times film critic A.O. Scott asks himself: what is criticism?