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The Missing Links

Two Clarice Lispector stories translated by Elizabeth Bishop. * Blake Butler on thirty years of Dalkey Archive. * Lars Iyer interviewed: “Black comedy, goes the definition, refuses to treat tragic materials tragically. It makes us laugh at tragic things. But I would go further, and say that black comedy refuses to treat comic materials solely comically, or satirical materials solely satirically“. * Beckett‘s role in the French Resistance. * Ben Lerner at the Met. * Brian Dillon on the prose of psychoanalysis: “The essay is a monologue pursued to the extent that we start to hear other voices, notice the undercurrents taking over”.   * Tom McCarthy on cartography. * Tim Parks on reading upward and meditation. *  Karl Whitney‘s Hidden City reviewed in the Telegraph (Karl is a former 3:AM editor and contributor). * On Ray Johnson. * Teju Cole: The Atlas of Affect. * Teju Cole, Tao Lin, and others on their Twitter use. * An interview with Robert Coover (video). * Geoff Dyer on the “Oh, shit!” moment. * Great interview with Lee Rourke. * Kazimir Malevich, the man who liberated painting. * Two stories by Diane Williams, followed by an interview.   * Zadie Smith on JG Ballard’s Crash. * Kierkegaard and Regine Olsen. * Darran Anderson on experimental literature. * ‘Alt lit‘. * Jacques Rancière‘s lecture on cinema and the frontiers of art. * Detroit and art. * Viv Albertine. * Joanna Hogg at Artforum. * The all-American road trip. * On translating Raymond Roussel. * 11-year-old illustrates Infinite Jest using Lego. * Sean O’Hagan on Nick Cave. * The Paranoia Machine. * Scrapbooking. * Will Self talks about death (video). * Will Self: “I had planned to write Jaws without the shark”. * Shark reviewed. * Self on Orwell: “[A]ny insistence on a particular way of stating things is an ideological act, whether performed by George Orwell or the Ministry of Truth”. Will Self on the digital essay (audio). * Will Self and John Banville on Dubliners. * The battle for Ulysses. * Illustrating the impossible: Stephen Crowe. * Knausgaard, Lydia Davis, and Kraznahorkai on Bookworm. * Knausgaard on Ben Marcus (audio). * Knausgaard interview (video). * Arthur Symons‘s The Symbolist Movement in Literature. * Hugo Ball. * Tom Vague. * Hipster neighbourhoods. * Ten Parisian artists beyond the P ériph érique. *  On Leos Carax‘s Boy Meets Girl (1984). *  Adrian West‘s superb piece on Edouard Lev é. * Marie Laurencin. * In-flight science. * The fairy tale continues. * An interview with Paul Weller. * The clich é expert’s guide to the cinema by Gilbert Adair. * Richard Linklater‘s Boyhood. * Absolutely brilliant review of Boyhood by Peter Bradshaw: “In some ways, the movie invites us to see Mason from an estranged-dad’s-eye-view, alert to sudden little changes and leaps in height. As an unestranged dad myself, I scrutinised Coltrane at the beginning of each scene, fascinated and weirdly anxious to see if and how he’d grown. But the point is that all parents are estranged, continually and suddenly waking up to how their children are growing, progressively assuming the separateness and privacy of adulthood. Part of this film’s triumph is how it depicts the enigma of what Mason is thinking and feeling”.   * Welcome again to the Pleasuredome. * DC punk history. * Would the real Francesca Woodman please stand up? * What kind of worker is a writer? * On paying writers.

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