Times Literary Supplement, May 6, 2022 – This week’s @TheTLS, featuring James Fenton on Volume IV of John Richardson’s Picasso biography; @joemoransblog on the “Premonitions Bureau”; @JuliusKrein on the American Right; @MElizabethLowry on William Kentridge; @AnaAliciaGarza on James Agee – and more
Tag Archives: Literature
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – May 9, 2022
Kadir Nelson’s “Hang Time”
The artist discusses basketball, painting, and teamwork.
By Françoise Mouly, Art by Kadir NelsonMay 2, 2022
For the second year in a row, basketball fans in New York have felt the sting of disappointed dreams. The Brooklyn Nets are, in the words of the staff writer Vinson Cunningham, “a theoretical super-team, not a fully realized force,” and they crashed out of the playoffs in the first round, after losing to the Boston Celtics in “a sweep that even the worst Nets pessimist wouldn’t have predicted.” And yet, on the city’s many courts, the game goes on. We spoke to Kadir Nelson about celebrating a beloved urban pastime.
Preview: New York Times Book Review – April 24
- PICTURE BOOKS Lost, and Found, in Translation: 3 Picture Books About Language Turn Anglocentric Tropes on Their HeadEnglish is gibberish, “X” is for bear and a shared word is everyone’s cup of tea — in new work by Young Vo, Ellen Heck and Andrea Wang.By KORY STAMPERApril 22, 2022
- OUR READERS RESPOND People Cope With Tragedy by Writing Poems. Maybe They Shouldn’t.And other letters to the editor.April 22, 2022
- New in Paperback: Helen Oyeyemi and George SaundersSix new paperbacks to check out this week.By MIGUEL SALAZAR
Preview: New York Review Of Books – May 12, 2022
Painting Herself
From the beginning, female self-portraitists have chosen to show themselves at work, as if to demonstrate that they could handle a brush as well as male artists.
The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women’s Self Portraits
by Jennifer Higgie
The Self-Portrait
by Natalie Rudd
Previews: Times Literary Supplement – April 22, 2022
Previews: Times Literary Supplement – April 15, 2022
Previews: London Review Of Books – April 21, 2022
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – April 18, 2022
April 18, 2022 – The street corner on this week’s cover, with towering luxury condos rising among modest family homes, evokes a neighborhood in transition—a scene that is being repeated across New York City’s outer boroughs. We talked to the artist Nicole Rifkin, who lived in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights before rising rents pushed her out, about a sense of belonging and observing the small details of the place where you live.
Books: 2022 Booker Prize Shortlist Announced
The Shortlist
Heaven
Told through the eyes of a 14-year-old boy subjected to relentless bullying, this is a haunting novel of the threat of violence that can stalk our teenage years. Translated by Samuel Bett and David Boyd.
Translated by Samuel Bett David Boyd
Elena Knows
A unique story that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and the search for individual freedom. Translated by Frances Riddle.
Translated by Frances Riddle
A New Name: Septology VI-VII
Jon Fosse delivers both a transcendent exploration of the human condition and a radically ‘other’ reading experience – incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly unique. Translated by Damion Searls.
By Jon Fosse
Translated by Damion Searls
Tomb of Sand
An urgent yet engaging protest against the destructive impact of borders, whether between religions, countries or genders. Translated by Daisy Rockwell.
Translated by Daisy Rockwell
The Books of Jacob
Olga Tokarczuk’s portrayal of Enlightenment Europe on the cusp of precipitous change, searching for certainty and longing for transcendence. Translated by Jennifer Croft.
Translated by Jennifer Croft
Cursed Bunny
Bora Chung presents a genre-defying collection of short stories, which blur the lines between magical realism, horror and science fiction. Translated by Anton Hur.
By Bora Chung
Translated by Anton Hur
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