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A still from the video for Holly Herndon\u2019s \u201cInterference.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

\"NH477_G\"<\/a>Andr\u00e9s Barba\u2019s August, October<\/a><\/em> starts off full of charm: a teenage boy from Madrid ditches his family and the beach club to hang out with the local kids in a seaside town. Slowly the atmosphere darkens as he tries to adopt their code of violence.\u00a0Although Barba has translated Melville, Conrad, and Defoe into Spanish, the writer whose ghost haunts August, October<\/em> unmistakably is Harold Brodkey, with his deep interest in adolescent sexuality and his ability to conjure the last frontiers of childhood. Like Brodkey, Barba inhabits his young hero with a clarity that is both sympathetic and unflinching. \u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Game of Thrones <\/em>last Sunday, Stannis Baratheon won the hearts of grammar dorks everywhere when he corrected a soldier of the Night\u2019s Watch who had made a fewer\/less mistake. (Stannis is a stickler: he made the same correction in season two.) Though he is sometimes boring and occasionally creepy, Stannis pays attention to detail in a way that is not niggling but noteworthy, indicative of someone comfortable with power. Honestly, at that moment in the episode, I thought for a moment of Mary Norris, a \u201cpage OK\u2019er\u201d at The New Yorker<\/em> and a self-proclaimed \u201ccomma queen,\u201d who tells a story in her memoir, Between You and Me<\/a><\/em>, about the surprising power she wields: \u201cwhen [a young editorial assistant] heard I was a copy editor she jumped back, as if I might poke her with a red-hot hyphen or force-feed her a pound of commas.\u201d But Norris isn\u2019t Stannis\u2014she\u2019s far too entertaining and modest and candid; she devotes whole chapters (paeans, really) to pencils, commas, and hyphens. (Maybe she\u2019s Sam? He did<\/em> kill a White Walker, but he\u2019s far more interested in scouring the library to figure out how<\/em> he managed to do it.)\u00a0\u2014Nicole Rudick\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"9781590172490\"<\/a>Best known for his Arthurian novel The Once and Future King<\/em><\/a>, T. H. White also wrote a short, playful book about falconry called The Goshawk<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>wherein White retreats to a small cottage in the country, orders a young Goshawk from Germany, and armed with nothing but a few outdated field guides on falconry, attempts to tame and train it. A mix of how-to guide, diary, and tangential musing on man\u2019s supremacy over the wilderness, the book is aware of its pompous philosophical digressions, and is all the funnier for it\u2014though there are moments of sad realization, where White\u2019s a priori assumptions about his status in the natural world dissolve, leaving him with wanting. Unbeknownst to me, Helen Macdonald\u2019s recent New York Times<\/em> best seller H is for Hawk<\/em><\/a> is also about the attempted training of a Goshawk, which is the hardest falcon to train; she references White\u2019s book throughout. (Sure enough, White\u2019s publisher has already changed the jacket copy to read, \u201cThe predecessor to Helen Macdonald\u2019s H is for Hawk<\/em>\u201d: good marketing for an old, largely forgotten book.) \u2014Jeffery Gleaves<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYou really deserve it. You work so hard, I don\u2019t know how you do it. I\u2019m going to touch you now. Can you relax your shoulders for me? Great. And from what you\u2019ve told me, so many people depend on you, and it\u2019s not just because you\u2019re good at what you do, it\u2019s because you\u2019re a great person.\u201d\u00a0Among the skittering, glassy electronica on Holly Herndon\u2019s new album,\u00a0Platform<\/a><\/em>, there\u2019s \u201cLonely at the Top,\u201d a four-minute monologue by a masseuse. In a seductive, sycophantic whisper, she tells you how magnificent you are; you hear her typing, squeezing lotion on her hands, and rubbing your shoulders, all of it in disturbingly high fidelity. The track finds Herndon putting the principles of ASMR\u2014autonomous sensory meridian response<\/a>, which contends that certain ordinary sounds produce a pleasant tingling in the scalp\u2014to a frightening, political new use.\u00a0Her vision of consumer solipsism is so complete, so narcotic, that it actually made\u00a0my skin crawl. It rides the same funny-creepy line as the final scene in Mike Nichols\u2019s Carnal Knowledge<\/a><\/em>, where an impotent Jack Nicholson goes in for a massage-cum pep talk from a beautiful woman: \u201cWho is better, more beautiful, more powerful, more perfect \u2026 you\u2019re getting hard \u2026 more strong, more masculine, more extraordinary, more \u2026 irresistible. It\u2019s up, it\u2019s in the air \u2026 \u201d \u2014Dan Piepenbring<\/strong><\/p>\n

Baptized by Norman Mailer as the \u201cRobespierre of feminism,\u201d Valerie Solanas has had her literary merit and revolutionary intentions eclipsed by her attempted murder of Andy Warhol. In the recent biography Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (And Shot Andy Warhol)<\/a><\/em>, Breanne Fahs seeks to contextualize her relationship with Warhol rather than allow her to be defined by it.\u00a0She focuses on Valerie\u2019s vision for the future of feminism (the eradication of all men from Earth) and her contentious position within the radical feminist movement. \u201cShe considered her manifesto the last word on feminism,\u201d her friend Donny Smith says, \u201cand any further discussion was either plagiarism or bullshit.\u201d Solanas glibly dismissed the National Organization for Women and other women\u2019s organizations as \u201ccivil disobedience luncheon clubs.\u201d Her story is a strange mix of audacity and tragedy. Where revolutionaries tend to possess a brand of danger that is edgy and appealing, Solanas\u2019s passion was always too volatile. People knew she was trouble long before she proved it. Fahs\u2019s unsentimental biography grants us the space to draw our own conclusions. \u2014Kit Connolly<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"img_2427\"<\/a>Why would you suppose that painting a black dot is easy? Jonathan Horowitz\u2019s 700 Dots<\/a><\/em> project at the Frieze Art Fair proves otherwise. In one of the stands, visitors are given the opportunity to sit and paint an eight-inch black dot as perfectly round and plain as possible. Some supervisors wander around to make sure that you\u2019re not trying to inject some of your own eccentricity into the dot-making project\u2014but in vain. Outsize dots, square dots, dots outside of the framework (mine was worryingly off-center) now upholster the walls of Gavin Brown\u2019s Enterprise stand. Even so, most of the novices I saw ended up much more committed to their art than they could have expected; little by little, they fell into a mute state of concentration. But this wasn\u2019t art for art\u2019s sake. Perfect dots are rewarded with a twenty-dollar check signed by Horowitz himself. \u2014Charlotte Groult<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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