When I mentioned at Facebook this spring that that I was gearing up to start into Damages, writer and LRB critic Jenny Diski urged me to stockpile food beforehand. It was good advice. The Maud household barely stirred from the couch for two consecutive weekends. Normally we’d be well into Season Two by now, but the DVDs aren’t out yet, . . .
“So much of how we experience Blood Meridian has to do with how we perceive its towering figure, the grotesque, pedocidal Judge Holden”?
John Freeman reveals three upcoming Granta themes — work, sex, & Chicago — and says an excerpt from Rupert Thomson’s memoir is in Issue 107.
Today Nextbook relaunches as Tablet Magazine, with an introduction from Alana Newhouse.
Scrollmotion will feature mag & news subscriptions, and 1M+ books, in a centralized iPhone app with streamlined purchasing. (Via; see previously.)