FYI #69
A few picks from this year’s Sydney Writers Festival program.. Rhodri Lewis on Shakespeare’s Tragedies , Home and Homesick, Rumaan Alam's American Dream, State of the Art: The Novel, PEN Lecture: The Fictional Space, The Wood and the Trees, Philippe Sands: 38 Londres Street and Closing Address: Anna Funder: Bears Out There.
Silence please: how book clubs without the chat help focus the mind, via the Guardian
Looking forward to Natasha Brown’s new book, Universality by Natasha Brown review – clever satire of identity politics, via the Guardian
New totems for an old problem, via One Thing, a conversation with the founders of Amulet literary magazine
Rebecca Solnit on the "stupid coup" Anand Giridharadas with Rebecca Solnit. I appreciated Solnit’s thoughts on beauty, moral beauty included.
Letter from February, I always enjoy Anna Iltnere’s letters from her wonderful Sea Library in Latvia
Dame Zandra Rhodes: the iconic fashion and textile designer makes room for us in her maximalist world, via the Modern House
Two bits of wrting by James Rebanks, Passing On the Farm to My Daughter (via Plough) and Why we’re running out of eggs: The global farming system lies in ruins (via UnHerd)
Our Modern Glut of Choice, Critics at Large | The New Yorker