by | May 18, 2020 | Bright Shiny News, Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The Financial Times Letter: A book on the City of Angels fit for a prince From Lyndon Heal, Madrid, Spain While I wouldn’t challenge Janan Ganesh’s assertion (FT Weekend, April 25) that ‘the seminal book about 20th century LA by a London professor (Los Angeles:...
by | May 10, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News, Weirdness
from The Guardian The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently from William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman by Rutger...
by | May 8, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from Inside Hook The Long and Decorated Literary History of the MILF From Chaucer to Mrs. Robinson, one of literature’s most subversive archetypes is also a surprisingly old one BY ELIOTT GROVER KRISTEN LIU-WONG “How many of you,” I ask a roomful of half-awake...
by | May 5, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The Observer New Biography ‘Warhol’ Separates the Man From the Myth By David D’Arcy Andy in Studio, New York, Union Square, 1976. Michael Childers Warhol, by Blake Gopnik, begins moments after the militant feminist and Factory hanger-on Valerie Solanas shot...
by | Apr 26, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The Guardian Stoicism in a time of pandemic: how Marcus Aurelius can help by Donald Robertson A bust of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Photograph: DEA/G DAagli Orti/De Agostini via Getty Images The Meditations, by a Roman emperor who died in a plague named after him,...
by | Apr 19, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The Millions On Pandemic and Literature by Ed Simon Less than a century after the Black Death descended into Europe and killed 75 million people—as much as 60 percent of the population (90% in some places) dead in the five years after 1347—an anonymous Alsatian...
