Weekend Reading List
From the fall of Cecil Rhodes to the return of Pee-wee Herman: what we’ve been reading this week
From the fall of Cecil Rhodes to the return of Pee-wee Herman: what we’ve been reading this week
- Is the divide between fiction and non-fiction just a Western fairy tale?
- Should we tear down statues of Cecil Rhodes? How should we respond to monuments we no longer want?
- John Seabrook in The New Yorker remembers the late architect Zaha Hadid.
- Pee-wee Herman has made a comeback – but where did he come from in the first place?
- The Albert Camus estate is currently celebrating the 70th anniversary of the author’s one and only visit to New York with a series of events – it was a trip that began absurdly.
- Teju Cole on the work of photographer Raghubir Singh.
- Much has been written about the influence that life in Morocco had on Paul Bowles the writer, but what of the ways it shaped his work as a composer?
- ‘Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear’ – Adam Phillips on psychoanalysis, essay writing and self-knowledge
- Are you a good reader? Take Vladimir Nabokov’s test to find out
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