Literature

From Carmen Herrera's taste for simplicity to a history of competitive eating: what to read this weekend

From Claudia Rankine on whiteness to the history of the medicine cabinet: what to read this weekend

What's so great about authenticity?

From the 'crisis of care' to René Magritte on left-wing luxury: what to read this weekend

From Elena Ferrante to global citizenship: what to read this weekend

From a critique of Adam Curtis to Wifredo Lam's Italian sojourn: what to read this weekend

Galerie Azzedine Alaïa, Musée de l’Orangerie, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, MuCEM, Marseille, France

Douglas Crimp's new memoir charts his life in the galleries and gay bars of 1970s New York

The final instalment of Patrick Langley's digest of recent monster books: Patrick Ness’s, A Monster Calls

Are we really modern? Why are artists suddenly interested in poetry? What to read this weekend

‘Unreflective nostalgia can breed monsters’ – Paul Kingsnorth's Beast (2016)

Three beastly new novels. Part one: Sarah Perry's The Essex Serpent

From Teju Cole's favourite albums to the burkini ban: what to read this weekend

From the tale of America's female Jesus to philosophical marginalia: what to read this weekend

From intellectual freedom to the Republican Party convention: what to read this weekend

Brian O'Doherty's homage to Samuel Beckett

From Teffi to totalitarianism: what to read this weekend

Family, literary influence, travel and environment in the work of Moyra Davey

The odd couple: agitprop and the griot tradition

We invited frieze contributors to discuss the writers and publications they consider to be the most significant of the last 20 years