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A round-up of the best things we’ve read online this week
Catherine Opie’s equivocal portraits, the impracticalities of architectural beauty and self-reflection with Karl Ove Knausgård
• A detailed takedown of the Uber redesign, by Eli Schiff.
• On the occasion of two LA exhibitions, Michael Kurcfeld looks at the photography of Catherine Opie.
• At The New York Review of Books, Zadie Smith writes about Schopenhauer’s On the Suffering of the World, a new film from Charlie Kaufman, and The Polar Express 4D Experience.
• Peter Schjeldahl reconsiders the legacy of Edvard Munch for the New Yorker.
• At n+1, a moving essay by Sarah Resnick on heroin addiction and harm reduction.
• Joan Miró’s grandson gives Alastair Sooke a tour of the late artist’s studio for the BBC.
• ‘He’s no ordinary con man. He’s way above average.’ Matt Taibbi on how America has made Donald Trump unstoppable.
• At the Guardian, Karl Ove Knausgård writes about Karl Ove Knausgård.
• To coincide with ‘Performing for Camera’ at Tate Modern, London, Liz Jobey reflects on a history of photographic documentation and deceit.
• On the London Review of Books blog, Gillian Darley looks at beautiful but impractical architecture.
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