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James Joyce. Photograph: Roger Viollet/AFP/Getty

Literature:

Ready Steady Book: A crisp new design
Samuel Beckett: Research Day Seminar at the University of Reading, May 2011
Samuel Beckett: Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho (PDF)
Samuel Beckett: The novelist, poet and playwright discusses form with Harold Pinter
Samuel Beckett: Thomas Pors Koed on impersonal subjectivity and The Unnamable
Samuel Beckett: Continuum offers a free online extract from Jonathan Boulter's study, Beckett: A Guide for the Perplexed
Writers and Kitties: Includes Samuel Beckett, Joyce Carol Oates, William S. Burroughs and others
James Joyce: Finnegans Wake and the Nazi Occupation
James Joyce: Passages from Finnegans Wake: The Film
James Joyce: Singer Kate Bush given permission to use extracts from Ulysses by the Joyce estate
An annotated, online edition of Finnegans Wake
Anaïs Nin’s Silver Lake Home
Penguin Threads Deluxe Classics: Embroidered covers of classic novels
A Bookless Library?
Harold Pinter: Blake Morrison reviews a recent production of Pinter's Moonlight
Picture Books: A letter to the New York Times stresses the continuing importance of picture books
Will Self: Opposed to the idle life
Franz Kafka to the Bodleian
Franz Kafka: Sleep and transformation
Joyce Carol Oates: Miranda Popkey reviews Oates' recent memoir, A Widow's Story
Joyce Carol Oates: Julian Barnes reviews A Widow's Story
What makes literature literature?
Sylvia Plath: Jacqueline Rose on her conflict with the Plath estate

Philosophy & Critical Theory:

Modernism and Nihilism: A new study by Shane Weller
At home with Susan Sontag
Walter Benjamin: Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (PDF)
Jacques Lacan at UBUWeb
Maurice Blanchot: Review of the recently published Political Writings: 1952-1993
Maurice Blanchot: HTMLGiant reviews Blanchot's Aminadab
Dante Alighieri: Steve Donoghue reviews David Slavitt's new translation of La Vita Nuova

Theatre

Samuel Beckett: Continuum offers a free online extract from its Online Theatre Guide to Waiting for Godot
How Shakespeare Invented Teenagers
The Original Portrait of William Shakespeare

Film:

Woody Allen: The Guardian on Woody Allen's long association with the Windsor typeface
William Shakespeare: Alan A. Stone reviews Julie Taymor's recent adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest
David Lynch: 60-Second claymation adaptation of Lynch's midnight movie classic, Eraserhead

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Samuel Beckett is now on Twitter: Follow him @samuelbbeckett

Literature:

Samuel Beckett on Twitter: Poet, playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett now has a presence on Twitter. Follow him for daily quotes, news, events and links to online content. Enjoy!
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Beckett Documentary: A very rare treasure, well worth your time
Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies 2011
Samuel Beckett: Ends and Odds
Samuel Beckett and Silence
Samuel Beckett: One of Beckett's favourite chess books, Irvine Chernev's The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played
Samuel Beckett: Portugese productions by Teatro Plástico
Samuel Beckett: Audio recording of David Warrilow performing A Piece of Monologue
Samuel Beckett: Madeleine Renard as Winnie in Samuel Beckett's Oh Les Beaux Jours (Happy Days)
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: The Video Game
Samuel Beckett on James Joyce
James Joyce on Hamlet
James Joyce: Fourth Annual James Joyce Research Colloquium, 14-16 April 2011
Barry Miles' top ten counterculture books
Judith Butler on Franz Kafka
George Orwell: The Guardian reviews A Life in Letters
Joyce Carol Oates: Los Angeles Times reviews Oates' recent memoir, A Widow's Story
Joyce Carol Oates: Elle interviews the American author about her new memoir, A Widow's Story
Philip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates receive National Humanities Awards
Philip Roth on Fact and Fiction
Philip Roth on God and Religion: 'I don't have a religious bone in my body'
Margaret Atwood: Atwood profiled as part of The Guardian's Top 100 Women series
J. M. Coetzee: Stephen Abell on Coetzee, suffering and the novel
Don DeLillo: American novelist reads from Mao II at a 2011 PEN event
The Great Gatsby as video game
Our favourite writers as Legos
Dante Alighieri's Death Mask

Philosophy & Critical Theory:

Assuming Gender: Second issue of the online academic journal is now free to download
Roland Barthes on the Labyrinth Metaphor
Jacques Lacan: Unpublished seminars
Why should we care about Immanuel Kant?
Lisa Appignanesi on the language of love
Gilles Deleuze University Lectures 1979-1987
Jacques Derrida: Television interview in which Derrida reflects on 'what comes before the question'
Judith Butler: Critical theorist profiled as part of The Guardian's Top 100 Women
Friedrich Nietzsche: Was Nietzsche the first psychologist?
Verso Book of Dissent: Competition

Theatre

Samuel Beckett: Conor Lovett to perform First Love and The End at the Samuel beckett: Out of the Archive festival
William Shakespeare: Helen Mirren: 'I want to play Hamlet!'
William Shakespeare: Was Hamlet a melancholy Dane? That is the question

Film:

J. G. Ballard: Christian Bale (Empire of the Sun) to reunite with Brad Anderson (The Machinist) on adaptation of Ballard's Concrete Island
Michel Gondry adapting Philip K. Dick's Ubik
Allen Ginsberg: Peter Bradshaw reviews Howl, a new biopic of the American Beat poet

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Welcome to the new design for A Piece of Monologue. Hope you like it!

Literature:

Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies: Call for Papers, University of Oxford
Samuel Beckett: Suhrkamp announces plans to publish Beckett's German Diaries (to be edited by Mark Nixon)
William S. Burroughs: A selection of Burroughs recordings, available online at UBUweb
William S. Burroughs: 97 things you didn't know about William S. Burroughs
Essential Jewish Literature: Jason Diamond picks his top 50 works of the last 100 years
Famous Writers' Doodles: Includes Sylvia Plath, Samuel Beckett, David Foster Wallace, Vladimir Nabokov, Franz Kafka, Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, Jorge Luis Borges and more
Will Self: Toby Lichtig reviews Self's new work, Walking to Hollywood
William Shakespeare: Stephen Greenblatt on Shakespeare's revisions in the Wall Street Journal

Philosophy & Critical Theory:

Friedrich Nietzsche: Geoff Dyer on his love of the nineteenth century philosopher
Roland Barthes: Mairéad Hanrahan praises Katie Briggs' 'wonderful translation' of The Preparation of the Novel

Film:

Alfred Hitchcock: Slavoj Žižek on Hitchcock’s Angles
Alfred Hitchcock: Image of Alfred Hitchcock's death mask
Coen brothers: Will Self on the Coen brothers
Coen brothers: Why Will Self is wrong about the Coen brothers

Art, Design & Photography

Francis Bacon: Bacon triptych, 'Three Sketches for a Portrait of Lucian Freud', sells for 23 million at auction

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Franz Kafka, The Sons (Schocken).
Design: Peter Mendelsund.

Literature:

Samuel Beckett: This week's Ends and Odds over at Samuel Beckett: Debts & Legacies
Patti Smith on Virginia Woolf
Stanley Fish: Adam Haslett reviews critic's new book, How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One
William Burroughs' Home Movies: Features Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and others
Phillip Pullman: Call to defend libraries resounds around web
James Joyce reads Finnegans Wake
James Joyce: Ulysses, illustrated with historical documents and photographs
James Joyce: Frank Callanan on the political attitudes of Ireland's high modernist
J. D. Salinger's Private Passions
Can Literature be Philosophical? James Ryerson on the philosophical novel
Writers Obsessed with Writers
Margaret Atwood: A new collection of scholarly articles exploring Atwood's work
Joseph Conrad: Phil Mongredien on Joseph Conrad's classic novel of postcolonial corruption
W. G. Sebald: W. G. Sebald turned a walk through Suffolk into an extraordinary book. As a film inspired by the work is premiered, Stuart Jeffries retraces his steps

Philosophy & Critical Theory:

Susie Orbach: Orbach talks about bodies (podcast)
Continental Philosophy Bulletin Board: A crisp new design
Roland Barthes: Lori Soderlind reviews Barthes' Mourning Diary in the New York Times

Film:

Werner Herzog: In Conversation, New York, March 23rd, 2011

Art, Design & Photography

Franz Kafka: Peter Mendelsund shares his passion for Kafka, and some forthcoming designs to be released by Schocken
Joyce Carol Oates: Story of photographer Jane Yarborough Creech, whose work is featured on recent Oates memoir
Joris Karl Huysmans: À Rebours illustrated

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Bob Dylan. Photograph: Daniel Kramer.

Literature:

London Review of Books: Winter Lecture s 2011: Includes Judith Butler on Franz Kafka, T. J. Clark on Picasso's Guernica and Elif Batuman on Cervantes and Balzac.
Joycean Literature: Fiction and Poetry 1910-2010: An academic conference to be held at the University of London, June 2011
James Joyce & Samuel Beckett: Top 10 Literary Mentorships
Joyce Carol Oates: New short story collection, Give Me Your Heart
Thomas Bernhard: German television documentary, spanning 1967-88
Beat Generation: Neal Cassady's wife, Carolyn, is interviewed by The Guardian on life with the Beats
J. D. Salinger: David L. Ulin reviews Jeffrey Slawenski's J. D. Salinger: A Life
Jorge Luis Borges: Martin Schifino reviews five new anthologies of the Borges' work
Jorge Luis Borges: The Riddle of Poetry, a lecture delivered at Harvard University 1967.
H. P. Lovecraft: GalleyCat presents a free documentary
Edgar Allan Poe: For the second time in two years, the mysterious 'Poe Toaster' fails to appear at the writer's gravesite

Philosophy & Critical Theory:

Roland Barthes: Columbia University Press publishes The Preparation of the Novel
Roland Barthes: Mairéad Hanrahan reviews Barthes' The Preparation of the Novel in the Times Literary Supplement
Roland Barthes: University of York launches a new reading group based around Barthes' The Neutral
Susan Sontag: Varia celebrates the birthday of the renowned cultural critic
Friedrich Nietzsche: Slate on why Nietzsche is so often misunderstood by angry young men
Jacques Derrida speaks about 'Forgiveness'

Film:

65 Things You Didn't Know About David Lynch

Art & Design

Ezra Stoller: Exploring Mad Men era New York through the photography of Ezra Stoller

Theatre

Thomas Bernhard: A translation of Elisabeth II
Frankenstein: The Guardian on Danny Boyle's new production at the National
Theatre and Performance: An online preview

Music

Bob Dylan: American musician signs six-book deal, which will include two further volumes in the Chronicles series
Patti Smith appears on Charlie Rose
Joy Division: Recordings from two Dutch concerts

Etc.

Woody Allen: 'Money Can Buy Happiness-As If', in the New Yorker
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Thomas Bernhard

Literature:

British Library Online Manuscript Gallery
Is Modernism Boring? Why James Joyce and Virginia Woolf shouldn't be gathering dust on your shelf
Thomas Bernhard: On Perfection and Failure
Thomas Bernhard: Memorable quotations from novels and interviews
Thomas Bernhard: From Wittgenstein's Nephew
Gabriel Josipovici on Thomas Bernhard
James Joyce: Death and Wake
Roberto Bolaño on Literature and Exile
Franz Kafka: An animated adaptation of 'A Country Doctor'
Franz Kafka: John Banville on Kafka, Felice Bauer and Elias Canetti
Franz Kafka: A new illustrated edition of The Trial from the Folio Society, with an introduction by John Banville
New York Writers: City Journal on NYC's rich literary heritage
New Look Spike Magazine
Celebrity Bookshelves: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Oprah Winfrey, Greta Garbo, Kelsey Grammer and more
William S. Burroughs: 1983 BBC Documentary presented by Alan Yentob, and featuring interviews with major Beat Generation figures
William Shakespeare: Alistair Fowler reviews Don Paterson's Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets: A New Commentary
Joyce Carol Oates on Charles Baxter
Dante Alighieri: How Galileo was influenced by Dante's Divine Comedy
Joseph Conrad: On science fiction novel, The Inheritors

Philosophy & Critical Theory:

J. G. Ballard: Ballardian's very on Simon Sellars to release Applied Ballardianism: the philosophy of J. G. Ballard in 2012
Harper Collins Philosophy Catalogue: New and forthcoming 2011
Time and Space in Contemporary Women's Writing: September 2011
Philosophy of Time Society Forum: Call for Papers
Philosophy Bites: Review of David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton's recent book
Emmanuel Levinas: Joshua Shaw reviews Michaël de Saint Cheron's Conversations with Emmanuel Levinas, 1983-1994
Michel Foucault: Foucault Studies 10: Foucault and Agamben
Sigmund Freud: Review of Alfred I. Tauber's new book, The Reluctant Philosopher
Slavoj Žižek: Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks

Film:

Orson Welles: Welles directs and stars in The Stranger (1946), now freely available to watch online

Art & Design

Sigmund Freud: The Freud Museum celebrates the New Yorker's psychoanalytic comic strip, On the Couch
Top 10 Typefaces Used by Book Design Winners
Samuel Beckett: Among Ronald Searle's Eye-View series for Punch (1961-2)

Theatre

William Shakespeare: Roundtable Discussion: 'The Imagination of Hamlet': Robert Brustein, Christian Camargo, Paul Fry (moderator), Laura Levine, Eugene Mahon, Susanne Wofford

Music

Joyce Carol Oates on Bob Dylan: Oates explained why she dedicated 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' to the American songwriter
Björk Covers Joy Division
Library of Congress Receives Record Donation: Including Fats Waller, Bing Cosby and Louis Armstrong

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Virginia Woolf book cover designs on the Behance Network

Literature:

Don DeLillo on Saul Bellow
James Joyce's Death Mask
Samuel Beckett: Limit(e) Beckett on ghosts and spectrality
Samuel Beckett: Featured on BBC Radio 4's Great Lives series
Samuel Beckett: German Diaries, 1936-1937
Samuel Beckett: Publishing Samuel beckett
Marcel Proust: Michael Norris on In Search of Lost Time, with illustrations by David Richardson
Marcel Proust: Which translation?
Gustave Flaubert: Lydia Davis' translation of Madame Bovary among James Wood's year in review
James Franco to adapt William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy
Samuel Beckett in Music: A lunchtime concert, performed as part of the Out of the Archive Conference, June 2011
Don DeLillo: PEN American Center interviews Don DeLillo
Book Quiz: 2010
Saul Bellow: Richard Rayner reviews Bellow's Letters
Saul Bellow: Adam Kirsch reviews Bellow's Letters
Authors entering the public domain in 2011
Five literary treats
Will Self: Upcoming events for 2011
W. G. Sebald: Writing Pictures
Philip Roth: Max Dunbar reviews Nemesis in 3:AM Magazine
Philip Roth on the Myths of Ageing
Ghosts in the library: Reading after Life
Literary Modernism: An audio discussion from BBC Radio 4's In Our Time
J. D. Salinger: Read an excerpt from Kenneth Slawenski's J. D. Salinger: A Life
Spike Magazine Books of the Year 2010
Paul Bowles at 100
Thomas Bernhard: Richard Crary describes 'A Bernhard moment'
Thomas Bernhard: Martin Chalmers recent translation of Bernhard's Prose
Thomas Bernhard: A translation of Einfach kompliziert
Jorge Luis Borges: Mr. Borges' Garden
Maud Newton on writing as compensation for things we don't do
Nathanael West's Nihilism
Ezra Pound's Pisan Imprisonment
Modern Novels: They might be big, but are they clever?
Why Literary Criticism Matters
The State of Criticism in 2011
J. G. Ballard: William Boyd picks his favourite Ballard short story
Bookshelf Porn: A rich online gallery of private and public interior designs
Paul Auster: An excerpt from City of Glass
Virginia Woolf: Contemporary minimalist cover designs of Virginia Woolf's novels
12 Bookstore Cats
When is a book damaged?
Jorge Luis Borges: 2007 documentary, The Mirror Man

Philosophy & Critical Theory:

Literature and Culture: The Work of Catherine Belsey
Does Philosophy Still Matter? 26 January 2011, NYC
Afromodernisms 2: What’s really new? Blackness and Atlantic Modernism, 1907–61
Top 10 Books About Books
Philosophers who died in 2010
Sigmund Freud: Freud Museum London presents an introduction to psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud: Revised entry in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Simon Critchley: Philosopher discusses the themes of his new book, How to Stop Living and Start Worrying
Slavoj Zizek: Are catastrophes virtual?
Slavoj Zizek: God Without the Sacred: The Book of Job, The First Critique of Ideology
On Maurice Blanchot and the Political (Audio)
Maurice Blanchot: Mark Thwaite on Kevin Hart's Clandestine Encounters
Hyperion: New issue available online
Philosophers in Winter
Michel Foucault and George W. Bush
Philosophy Bites Daily: A new, regularly-updated philosophy blog
David Foster Wallace: Columbia University Press releases Fate, Time and Language: An essay on free will
Freud, Secularism and Jewish History at the New School
Why Walter Benjamin remains difficult to classify

Film:

Terrence Malick: Trailer for new film, The Tree of Life
Stanley Kubrick: 17 lost minutes of 2001: A Space Odyssey have been found
Playing chess with Stanley Kubrick
Diane Johnson on Stanley Kubrick
Phillip French's best films of 2010
Movie Title Stills Collection
Werner Herzog's Visceral Nature Writing

Music

Jacques Derrida interviews Ornette Coleman

Art & Design

Louise Bourgeois and Balzac's Eugénie Grandet
Edward Hopper: Why does Hopper continue to puzzle?
Harvey Pekar: 3:AM Magazine Cult Hero
William S. Burroughs: Alison van Pelt's portraits of the American writer
Susan Sontag: On photography

Theatre

Thomas Bernhard Weekend: 5 – 6 February 2011, Austrian Cultural Forum London
William Shakespeare: The Routledge Guide to William Shakespeare, by Robert Shaughnessy
William Shakespeare: John Lahr on 'raising the bar on Shakespearian tragedy'
Blogging Shakespeare

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David Lynch

Literature:

J. G. Ballard: William Boyd reads 'My dream of flying to Wake Island'
Books on the frontline defence of UK student protests
Christopher Isherwood: New York Times discovers Isherwood's encounter with Mick Jagger in the second volume of his Diaries
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Dostoyevsky's death mask
Will Self: Lengthy interview on the Sky Arts programme, In Confidence
J. D. Salinger: The New Yorker staff writer Lillian Ross reflects on a long-standing friendship with the American author
Leo Tolstoy: Anatoly Naiman of the Moscow News reflects on 'the Tolstoy we have lost'
Mathias Énard: Stephen Mitchelmore reviews Zone
Saul Bellow: Saul Bellow reads from Humboldt's Gift (1988)
New Yorker compiles a year's reading
Philip Larkin: Unknown poem discovered in shoe box
Maud Newton launches a pop culture TUMBLR blog

Philosophy & Critical Theory:

FWSA Book Prize 2011
Yale University on iTunes U: A selection of downloadable podcasts
Maurice Blanchot: Jacky Wang on Blanchot and inventing language in an unfamiliar tongue
Erik Morse: On the cultural motif of the haunted house

Film:

David Lynch: Director, artist and musician David Lynch answers questions on Twitter
Ridley Scott: According to sources, Alien prequel to proceed under the title 'Paradise'
Alfred Hitchcock: Roundtable discussion: 'Finding equilibrium in Hitchcock's Vertigo'
Thomas Bernhard: Three Days, a documentary film by Ferry Radax, now available on DVD
The Art of Film Title Design

Television

David Lynch: John Coulthart revisits landmark television series, Twin Peaks

Art & Design

Miles Davis: Richard Williams reviews a recent collection of paintings by the American jazz trumpeter

Theatre

William Shakespeare: Alan A. Stone on King Lear and Humanity

Music

David Lynch: The Guardian's Jason Solomon interviews filmmaker David Lynch about his recent foray into pop music
David Lynch: Dazed Digital interviews David Lynch
Stephen Morris: Joy Division and New Order drummer selects his favourite albums

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Atelier Carvalho Bernau's typeface, celebrating the 80th birthday of Jean-Luc Godard

Literature:

Samuel Beckett: This week's Ends and Odds over at the Samuel Beckett Debts and Legacies website.

Gabriel Josipovici: Who reads Proust? Ramona Koval interviews Josipovici about modernism on The Book Show, ABC Radio National

Marcel Proust: 20th century novelist on the sensationalism of the daily news

Thomas Bernhard: Recent photographs of Bernhard's house and surrounding landscape, by Hennetmair

TLS Books of the Year 2010

Patti Smith: Video of artist and musician Patti Smith, author of Just Kids, in conversation with Jonathan Lethem, author of Chronic City, earlier this year

The Future of the Literary Journal: An interview with Electric Literature's Andy Hunter

Philosophy & Critical Theory:

Will Self at the Freud Museum in London: A fundraising event, organized as part of the Intimate Evenings series

Roland Barthes: Audio recordings of Barthes' lectures at the Collège de France, 1977

Film:

Jean-Luc Godard: To celebrate the 80th birthday of the new wave French filmmaker, Atelier Carvalho Bernau has designed a typeface that is free for readers to download

Music

Joy Division Plus: Rough Trade celebrate the launch of Joy Division +- with Peter Saville, Stephen Morris and Jon Savage

Iggy Pop: A television interview where Iggy Pop discusses working with David Bowie, and the recording of his 1977 album The Idiot

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Joy Division, 'She's Lost Control'/'Atmosphere' single. Art direction: Peter Saville.

Literature:

100 Notable Books of 2010: An annual round-up from the New York Times

Margaret Atwood: 'Human creativity is not confined to just a few areas of life. The techno-scientific world has some of the most creative people you'll ever meet.'
Robert McCrum interviews Atwood in The Observer

Irish Company: James Joyce and Samuel Beckett: Friedhelm Rathjen embarks on a cycling tour of Ireland in search of his literary heroes

James Joyce's burnt kidney breakfast: A selection of quotations from Ulysses, compiled by Biblioklept.

William S. Burroughs: Dangerous Minds compiles a number of biographical sources on Burroughs' collaboration with Nirvana frontman, Kurt Cobain

Saul Bellow: 'Of course, readers of Bellow will plunge into these letters eager to trace the making of a writer, and in this they will not be disappointed.' John Banville reviews Saul Bellow's Letters in The Observer

Philip K. Dick: A map of Philip K. Dick's Hugo Award-winning The Man in the High Castle

Norman Mailer: The New York Times profiles Norris Church Mailer, 'artist and ally' of the American novelist, who passed away recently

Paul Celan: Ian Pindar celebrates the German poet on what would have been his 90th birthday

Patti Smith: Musician reflects on winning National Book Award for Just Kids, a non-fiction work based on her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe

Tom Waits: The Guardian reports that the American musician is planning to publish a collection of his poetry. Hard Ground will be published by University of Texas Press in March 2011.

Philosophy & Critical Theory:

Assuming Gender: This year's annual lecture is by Professor Mandy Merck, entitled 'The Question of Caster Semenya: Gender and the Level Playing Field'. 01 December from 4.30 at Cardiff University. Free to attend.

Noam Chomsky: Chomsky is due to speak at Cardiff University on 11 March 2011. More details to be confirmed.

Theatre:

Samuel Beckett: The Guardian reviews Michael Lawrence's production, Krapp, 39, inspired by Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape

Franz Kafka: Two British comedians, Tom Basden and Tim Key, star in Joseph K., a darkly comic adaptation of Kafka's The Trial

Music

David Bowie: BBC's 1975 Omnibus documentary, Cracked Actor, available online

Joy Division: Peter Saville and Studio Parris Wakefield's beautiful design work for the Joy Division back catalogue

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Terrence Malick, Days of Heaven (1978)

Literature:

Thomas Bernhard: Phillip Lopate reviews new translation of Bernhard's My Prizes: An Accounting
Samuel Beckett: This week's Odds and Ends at the Debts and Legacies website
Samuel Beckett: Ludovic Janvier's poem, 'With Sam' translated by Raymond Federman in the Evergreen Review
Paul Auster: An interview in The Telegraph
The Art of Penguin Books' Science Fiction
Leo Tolstoy: On the 100th Anniversary of the Russian novelist's death, The Independent meets with some of his descendants
Leo Tolstoy: The Guardian visits Tolstoy's Yasnaya Polyana estate, where War and Peace and Anna Karenina were written
Leo Tolstoy: Rowan Williams on Leo Tolstoy
The Case for Books: On the rise of electronic literature, and Robert Darnton's critical study
Patti Smith wins National Book Award
Angela Morgan Cutler: New novel, The Letter, explores themes of violence, language and identity
10 Contemporary Books that Challenged White, Male Literary Dominance
Joyce Carol Oates on J. D. Salinger
Ron Silliman's Blog: One of the best regularly-updated literary blogs on the web
Cardiff Book History: A regularly-updated resource

Philosophy & Critical Theory:

Slavoj Žižek: In a television interview, Riz Khan asks the critical theorist whether we are living in the end times
Maurice Blanchot and Simone Weil's notion of sacred language

Theatre:

William Shakespeare: Graduate Conference in Florence, April 2011
William Shakespeare: Medieval Shakespeare: The Cultural Politics of Periodisation, March 2011

Film

Terrence Malick: Tim Dirks reviews Malick's Days of Heaven
Taxi Driver: Photographer Steve Schapiro discusses working on the set of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver
Martin Scorsese: Scorsese's Public Speaking, an HBO documentary on New York writer Fran Lebowitz
William S. Burroughs: New York Times reviews new documentary, William S. Burroughs: The Man Within
William S. Burroughs & Brion Gysin: Documentary, 'Destroy All Rational Thought'

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Woody Allen

Literature:

Samuel Beckett: Volume 2 of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, covering the years 1941-1956, to be released August 2011
Samuel Beckett: Grove Atlantic release The Selected Works of Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett: This weeks Ends and Odds from the Debts and Legacies website
Samuel Beckett: BookGeeks reviews the new Faber edition of Company, and other short prose works.
Samuel Beckett: Beckett included in a recent Irish Times article about resistance heroes of the Second World War
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale celebrates its 25th Anniversary this year
Joyce Carol Oates: HarperCollins release Sourland, a new collection of short stories
J. M. Coetzee: Patrick McGrath reviews The Master of Petersburg
Michel Houellebecq: 2010 Interview in The Paris Review
25 words of fewer: 'Hint fiction'
Ian McEwan: Could British novelist's son hold cure for the common cold?
J. G. Ballard: Norton releases The Complete Short Stories in Paperback
Paul Auster: Biblioklept compiles six online interviews with the American author
Paul Auster: Interview with Paul Auster about his new novel, Sunset Park
Paul Auster's favourite books
Paul Auster: Borders interviews Auster about Sunset Park
Paul Auster on Book Reviews: Interview in the Wall Street Journal
Don DeLillo: A review of what is perhaps DeLillo's signature novel, White Noise
English Literature: A very short introduction: Jonathan Bate's guide reviewed in The Independent
AHRC: Funding opportunity for 'a new generation of thinkers'
wwword: A new website for lovers of language and literature

Philosophy & Critical Theory:

Assuming Gender: Annual Lecture at Cardiff University, 1 December, free to attend
Simon Critchley: Interview with Frieze
Shakespeare and Derrida: Call for Papers
Roland Barthes on Alain Robbe-Grillet

Theatre:

Samuel Beckett: New production of Happy Days produced by the Corn Exchange in Dublin
Samuel Beckett: Mary Bryden unravels the cultural and historical significance of Beckett's Godot
Samuel Beckett: Queen Elizabeth is reportedly a fan of Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett: Michael Lawrence writes and stars in Krapp, 39, a personal adaptation of Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape
William Shakespeare: Fabler Shakespeare Readers in Cardiff

Music

Bob Dylan After the Fall: NYRB reviews writings on Dylan by Sean Wilentz and Greil Marcus
Franz Kafka: Review of György Kurtág's Fragments

Film

Woody Allen: Illustrated online biography of the early Woody Allen, 1952-1971

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Don DeLillo, End Zone

Literature:

J. G. Ballard: This month's Featured Artist on A Piece of Monologue
Samuel Beckett: This week's Ends and Odds over at the Debts and Legacies website
Samuel Beckett: A television interview with Charles Juliet (in French)
Günter Grass: An interview with the German writer
Gabriel Josipovici: On Josipovici's fiction
Paul Auster: Biblioklept reviews Sunset Park
Graduate unemployment at its highest in level in 17 years
DublinLit+: A promising new website from 3:AM Magazine's Susan Tomaselli

Philosophy & Critical Theory:

Roland Barthes: Scott Esposito reviews The Mourning Diary
Jacques Derrida: A review of Benoît Peeters' new biography of the French writer and philosopher

Theatre:

William Shakespeare: Al Pacino wants to be fair to Shakespeare
William Shakespeare: Virtual Special Issues of Shakespeare
William Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Imagined Orient, an International Conference
Samuel Beckett: Michael Lawrence performs Krapp, 39, a personal dramatic work based on Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape

Music

Kraftwerk: Kraftwerk: Music Non-Stop: A new collection of essays exploring the music, aesthetic and cultural significance of the electronic group

Art, Design & Photography

The war on Comic Sans
Don DeLillo: New Don DeLillo paperbacks from Picador, March 2011

Film

David Fincher: Zadie Smith reviews The Social Network
A 'Wilhelm Scream' Compilation
Francis Ford Coppola: Review of The Godfather Family Album

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Ian Curtis of Joy Division. Photograph: Kevin Cummins

Literature:

Samuel Beckett: Second Call for Papers from the Out of the Archive conference team
Samuel Beckett: Odds and Ends: A new feature at the Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies website
What 10 Classic Books Were Almost Called
Virginia Woolf: Short story, 'A Haunted House'
Joyce Carol Oates: Review of A Fair Maiden
Thomas Bernhard: London Review of Books on the Penguin reissue of Old Masters
Paul Auster: Arifa Akbar reviews Auster's new novel, Sunset Park
Paul Auster: Interviewed by The L Magazine about Sunset Park
James Boswell: Steve King profiles Samuel Johnson's biographer
Philip Roth: Tim Parks reviews Nemesis in the London Review of Books
Philip Roth: On literature and teaching
Gabriel Josipovici: Interview by Berfrois
Should the University Survive in its Current Form?
Ambit: New issue now available
Christopher Isherwood: Second volume of the Diaries 1960-1969 is now available
James Joyce: Position available at the James Joyce Centre
Sylvia Plath and Anne Stevenson
Saul Bellow: The Second Pass reviews Saul Bellow's Letters
Tom McCarthy: McCarthy discusses the influence of Sigmund Freud on C.
Electric Literature: An interview with the founders of Electric Literature

Philosophy & Critical Theory:

Friedrich Nietzsche's Death Mask
FWSA Book Prize 2011
France in the 1960s: Your guide to the intellectual scene
Sigmund Freud: John Fletcher on 'Time and Trauma in Freud's Thought'
Sigmund Freud: Paul Crosthwaite on psychoanalysis and global economic collapse
So you want to get a PhD in the Humanities?

Theatre:

William Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Globe Gesture Lab, 5-7 November 2010
Oliver, Shakespeare and the National
William Shakespeare: Hamlet and Poetry, call for papers

Music

Franz Kafka: György Kurtág's Kafka Fragments at the Barbican in London
Joy Division: New book of photography by Kevin Cummins
J. G. Ballard: Bryan Ferry notes the influence of Ballard on Roxy Music

Art, Design & Photography

Henri Cartier-Bresson: Review of An Inner Silence: The Portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Coffee BREAKDOWN: Ephemeral comic strip

Film

Alfred Hitchcock: Emanuel Berman on Hitchcock's Vertigo, 'The collapse of a rescue phantasy'
David Lynch: Short film of Lynch's lithographic work in Paris

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Philip Roth. Photograph: Steve Pyke.

Literature:

Samuel Beckett: The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 2, 1941–1956 will be published by Cambridge University Press in August 2011
Samuel Beckett: Lois Overbeck to speak at the Samuel Beckett: Out of the Archive conference in York, June 2011
James Joyce: This week, Frank DeLaney's podcast readings of Ulysses find Stephen discussing Shakespeare's Hamlet
Joseph Conrad: 3:AM Magazine reviews graphic novel adaptation of Heart of Darkness
Philip Roth: Elaine Showalter compares Roth's new novel, Nemesis, with Albert Camus' The Plague
Philip Roth: Nemesis gets The Complete Review treatment
Tom McCarthy: Jen Craig reads C, and asks whether McCarthy really is a modernist writer
Paul Celan: Translating Celan Conference, London, 23 November 2010
William S. Burroughs: Oliver Harris on re-editing the first trilogy (Junky, Queer, The Yage Letters)
Harvard University Press: Spring Catalogue 2011
HTML Giant launches literary magazine club
Indie Literary Sites start coming of age
Spike Magazine: The Book (Free PDF download)

Philosophy & Critical Theory:

History of Philosophy Podcast: Based at King's College, London
Socrates - a man for our times

Film:

Werner Herzog: A selection of documentaries to be shown at DocNYC.
Werner Herzog: The Guardian's Jonathan Jones on Herzog as performance artist
Blade Runner: The Guardian profiles Ridley Scott's science fiction masterpiece as part of its ongoing film season

Etc.

Melvyn Bragg: Discussions from radio programme In Our Time published in a new collection

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Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters by Marilyn Monroe

Literature:

Samuel Beckett: J. M. Coetzee, John Banville, John Minihan, Simon Critchley, John Calder all to attend Samuel Beckett: Out of the Archive in June 2011
James Joyce: Wake in Progress: A new project that will attempt to illustrate James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
Gabriel Josipovici: The Millions reviews What Ever Happened to Modernism?
Paul Auster: 2003 interview with The Paris Review
Paul Auster: Review of The Red Notebook
Franz Kafka: Letter to the New York Times critiques Elif Batuman's portrait of Kafka
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Goethe's death mask
Philip Larkin: Review of Letters to Monica
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: A. S. Byatt on Demons and political activism
State of Emergency: Censorship by Bullet in Mexico: Event to include readings from Paul Auster and Don DeLillo
Not the Booker Prize: Congratulations to the winners: Lee Rourke and Matthew Hooton
Marilyn Monroe's Reading Habits: New book, Fragments, includes references to Beckett, Conrad, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Kerouac, Camus, Ellison and more
Michael Dirda's favourite literary essayist
Saul Bellow: Rachel Cooke talks to Bellow's widow about the American writer, and also touches upon a collection of correspondence that includes John Cheever, Philip Roth and Martin Amis
William S. Burroughs shoots William Shakespeare

Philosophy & Critical Theory:

William Shakespeare: Cardiff Shakespeare launches publications page
Bible:  Review of Gordon Campbell's Bible: The Story of the King James Version 1611-2011

Art & Design:

Francis Bacon: Painting of cricketer to be auctioned in New York

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