Virtual Library
A Reading Collection
Liveness 2020 (Archive)
Colonialism, J.K. Rowling, whiteness, memoir, illness, authorship, publishing, emotions, policing, urban life, time, writing, racism, embodiment, microbiology & virology, climate emergency, cancer, statues, black writers, code-switching, Generation C, death, Romanticism, mediumship, fantasy, Asian American writing, disease, protest, Walter Benjamin.
Compiled by Laura Szandomierska with contributions from Chris Arnephie, Second Year students at Creative Writing and English Literature.
‘White Supremacism and the Earth System’ – by Nafeez Ahmed
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/white-supremacism-and-the-earth-system-fa14e0ea6147
‘How JK Rowling betrayed the world she created’ – by Gabrielle Bellot
https://lithub.com/how-jk-rowling-betrayed-the-world-she-created/
‘Short Cuts’ – by Joanna Biggs
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n12/joanna-biggs/short-cuts
‘Always Narrating: The Making and Unmaking of Umberto Eco’ – by Costica Bradatan
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/always-narrating-the-making-and-unmaking-of-umberto-eco/
‘Negative emotions are a necessary part of a good life’ – by Arthur C. Brooks
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/06/dont-push-away-your-negative-emotions/613180/
‘The Culture of Policing is Broken’ – by David Brooks
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/how-police-brutality-gets-made/613030/
‘Otherbreath’ – by Julie Phillips Brown
‘Location settings, or: the death of the city’ – by Chris Campanioni
https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/location-settings-or-the-death-of-the-city/
‘A Certain Sagan’ – by Sophie Jean-Louis Constantine
Rachel Cusk: The Art of Fiction no.246
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7535/the-art-of-fiction-no-246-rachel-cusk
‘Lineated time’ – by Raymond de Borja
‘On the Extremest Verge’ – by Mark Doty
‘Sejal Shah on the Tricky Work of Giving Shape to an Essay Collection – Anjali Enjeti in Conversation with the Author of This is One Way To Dance’
https://lithub.com/sejal-shah-on-the-tricky-work-of-giving-shape-to-an-essay-collection/
‘NK Jemisin: It’s easier to get a book set in Black Africa published if you are white’ – by Alison Flood
‘We owe more to our young writers: on the relevance of the workshop’ – by Ru Freeman
https://lithub.com/we-owe-more-to-our-young-writers-on-the-relevance-of-the-workshop/
‘Touching is a verb: the hands of the pandemic and the inescapable question’ – by Cristina Rivera Garza
‘All hail the microbe’ – by Lavinia Greenlaw
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n12/lavinia-greenlaw/all-hail-the-microbe
‘Poets on Couches’ – by Saskia Hamilton
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/columns/poets-on-couches/
‘When Scientific Data Shapes Climate Literature’ – by Heather Houser
https://lithub.com/when-scientific-data-shapes-climate-literature/
‘The Wicked Candor of Wanda Coleman’ – by Terrance Hughes
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/06/12/the-wicked-candor-of-wanda-coleman/
‘What Are the Boundaries of a Memoir?’ – by Beth Kephart
‘Kathy Acker’s final year’ – by Chris Kraus
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/cancer-became-my-whole-brain-kathy-acker-final-year
‘While statues sleep’ – by Thomas Laqueur
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n12/thomas-laqueur/while-statues-sleep
‘The American short story and me’ – by Linda Mannheim
https://www.influxpress.com/blog/2020/6/2/the-american-short-story-and-me-linda-mannheim
‘How Zora Neale Hurston Rewrote the Rule Book’ – by Sarah Lapido Manyika
‘On code-switching’ – by Laia Sales Merino
http://ambitmagazine.co.uk/reviews/on-code-switching-by-laia-sales-merino
‘Generation C has nowhere to turn’ –by Amanda Mull
An interview with Jenny Offill ‘Learning to die’
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/02/14/learning-to-die-an-interview-with-jenny-offill/
‘Abolish Whiteness’ –by Jason Okundaye
‘Time and agency: alternate history fictions’ –by Keren Omry
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/time-and-agency-alternate-history-fictions/
‘The inward eye-painting, poetry, and the world of William Wordsworth’ –by Seamus Perry
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/painting-poetry-world-william-wordsworth/
‘We’re not talking to you, we’re talking to Saturn’ –by Nick Richardson
‘When the medium is the messenger-the art of communicating with spirits’ –by Sophie Ruigrok
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/artist-medium-drawing-room-london/
‘Urban fantasy novels: Why they matter and which ones to read first’ –by Paul March Russell
https://theconversation.com/urban-fantasy-novels-why-they-matter-and-which-ones-to-read-first-137942
‘What does it mean to write Asian American Literature?’ –by Matthew Salesses
‘Antindex’ –by James Sanders
‘Desire and Disease in Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice’ –by Anthony Schneck
http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/desire-disease-thomas-manns-death-venice/
‘Everything is what it is’ –by Fernando Sdrigotti
‘Protest is the highest form of patriotism’ –by Adam Serwer
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/lonnie-bunch-confronting-race-america/613174/
‘Thriving in Isolation and Beyond: The Empowering Poetry of Vasyl Stus’ –by Bohdan Tokarsky
‘Dreaming Freely: On The Ecstatic Fictions of Can Xue’ –by Bailey Trela
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dreaming-freely-on-the-ecstatic-fictions-of-can-xue/
Alan Wall on the first person or ‘Considering I, alone’
‘Walter Benjamin and the City’ –by Alan Wall
https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2018/06/walter-benjamin-and-the-city/