The Missing Links
Tom Lutz on the future of books. * Posthumously published NY Times interview with Mark Twain. * German Art Nouveau magazine, Jugend. * The three Vs of Bloomsbury. * Dostoyevsky, a 19th Century writer for our times. * Philip K. Dick‘s bible for sale, with holographic notes. * The New Jewish Literature. * Literary friendships. […]
Panic on the Streets of England
As to the accusations that these rioters are ‘shitting on their own door step’, attacking their own kind, well, frankly, that’s crazy talk. These kids have nothing in common with the small business owner, for even that modest acquisition is beyond these kids. This isn’t their community, none of this belongs to them. Even on your crappy estate, with its stinking rubbish, high rents, violence and urine-soaked lifts; you’re endlessly reminded that your home isn’t yours, that you are suffered to live there and that nothing belongs to you.
By Heidi James-Dunbar.
Palimpsest City
“In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I don’t mean it as a term of praise: these cabinets of curiousities contained specific sorts of objects – maps, skulls (as memento mori), works of art, stuffed animals, natural history samples, and books – and Open City actually contains many of the same sort of objects. My own literary interest is more about excavating the past, or sensing the past inside the present. This requires all kinds of exclusions and sleights of hand.”
Max Liu interviews Teju Cole.