Many of these links have been tweeted in the past, but here I can tag and categorise them for future reference. I hope you find some of them interesting too. Please feel free to discuss in comments or on Twitter. Some of the links to PDFs disappear quickly so download them promptly.
‘The Reader’ – G. Richter
Dr. B or : How I learned to stop worrying and love cinema post: The Gaze and its psychoanalytical implications in Richter, Graham and Beckett’s art.
Faust Series Opus 9 post: 13 Tips for a Writing Friend (After Benjamin, Baudelaire etc.)
Judith Butler’s Undoing Gender (2004) [Full- PDF] -”recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation.”
This is treasure for me, discovering a trove of Guy Debord’s letters. ”Although I have read a lot, I have drunk even more.”
Bookslut reviews Viktor Shklovsky’s A Hunt for Optimism:
It lacks so much that readers generally gravitate to that even Shklovsky’s clinical prose can seem like an obstruction. But those that can tolerate the writer’s embracing of polyphony and multiplicity will undoubtedly see that there is a very serious mind at work.
These three interpretations of Charles Bukowski’s Melancholy are intriguing. My preference is for the first performance.
Salon’s review of James Wood’s The Fun Stuff. Enjoyed the review though I’ve no urge, presently, to buy the book despite enjoying much of Wood’s writing.
Full Stop’s review of Suzanne Scanlon’s Promising Young Women, which I expect to read some day:
This is the brilliance of Suzanne Scanlon’s debut: by casting Lizzie as a self-aware cipher in conflict with the critical reader, Scanlon refuses the same act of diagnosis that her novel critiques.
A collection of films inspired by Angela Carter, exploring the gothic, mysterious and magical themes of her work.
Three-part documentary about Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian writer of the staggeringly good The Buru Quartet.
Green and yellow: the colours of Brazilian Modernism.
Twenty years on, Elaine Showalter’s revised introduction to A Literature of Their Own. [PDF]
Leszek Kolakowski’s The Death of Utopia Revisited (1982).[PDF]
JM Coetzee on the novels of Saul Bellow.
Women on the market by Luce Irigaray (“applies Marx’s analysis of the commodity to the status of women – objects circulated by men to reproduce a male-dominated society.”)
