{"id":97822,"date":"2016-05-06T09:26:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T13:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=97822"},"modified":"2016-05-06T11:05:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:05:26","slug":"watch-out-for-hidden-skulls-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/06\/watch-out-for-hidden-skulls-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Out for Hidden Skulls, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_97823\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1039px-hans_holbein_the_younger_-_the_ambassadors_-_google_art_project.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97823\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97823\" class=\"wp-image-97823\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1039px-hans_holbein_the_younger_-_the_ambassadors_-_google_art_project.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1039px-hans_holbein_the_younger_-_the_ambassadors_-_google_art_project.jpg 1039w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1039px-hans_holbein_the_younger_-_the_ambassadors_-_google_art_project-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1039px-hans_holbein_the_younger_-_the_ambassadors_-_google_art_project-768x757.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1039px-hans_holbein_the_younger_-_the_ambassadors_-_google_art_project-1024x1009.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-97823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hans Holbein the Younger, <i>The Ambassadors<\/i>, 1533.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>With <em>Zero K<\/em> out, Don DeLillo is doing that most un-DeLillo of things: giving interviews. He told Mark O\u2019Connell, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2016\/05\/delillo.html\" target=\"_blank\">The novel still exists. And to my mind it still can be called a flourishing form<\/a>. There are so many good younger writers. It\u2019s clear people are drawn towards the form\u2014people who want to write are drawn toward the novel. It\u2019s the most accommodating form, certainly within fiction, and the most challenging. And it\u2019s very heartening to see so many good young writers. Don\u2019t ask me for names. But I do know the work of some of them, and I do know the opinions of people I respect who read more than I do. So I don\u2019t feel any dismay concerning the form itself \u2026 I find that being active as a fiction writer propels one toward the future, in a way.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>While we\u2019re on DeLillo: it\u2019s comforting, in some small way, to know that Ben Rhodes, the nation\u2019s deputy national-security adviser for strategic communications, has or has had DeLillo on his mind. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/08\/magazine\/the-aspiring-novelist-who-became-obamas-foreign-policy-guru.html\" target=\"_blank\">He saw the planes hit the towers, an unforgettable moment of sheer disbelief followed by panic and shock and lasting horror, a scene that eerily reminded him, in the aftermath, of the cover of the Don DeLillo novel <em>Underworld<\/em><\/a> \u2026 He was in the second year of the M.F.A. program at NYU, writing short stories about losers in garden apartments and imagining that soon he would be published in literary magazines, acquire an agent and produce a novel by the time he turned twenty-six. He saw the first tower go down, and after that he walked around for a while \u2026 \u2018I immediately developed this idea that, you know, maybe I want to try to write about international affairs,\u2019 he explained.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><em>The Crucible <\/em>is sixty-three years old, and for all its heavy-handedness it\u2019s still a great way to rile yourself up about despotism, especially when it\u2019s set, as a new production is, in a contemporary elementary school: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/arthur-miller-chameleon-play-the-crucible\/\" target=\"_blank\">For viewers around the globe, the play evokes frustrations with tyrannical, violent political leaders. As election season engulfs us, Ivo van Hove\u2019s production urges us to consider our country\u2019s currently campaigning personalities<\/a> \u2026 Times never really change, Van Hove suggests. We\u2019re all still schoolchildren, feuding and petty and hesitant to admit our mistakes. There\u2019s a thin line between theatrics and rabble-rousing and the human inclination to follow spectacular reasoning, regardless of its truth. What matters more is what\u2019s being taught and what\u2019s been learned.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Optical illusions can save your life, man.\u00a0<em>And\u00a0<\/em>your soul. India\u2019s transport ministry has used some sleight of hand to make their crosswalks seem to levitate from the street, which reminds Kelly Grovier of a memento mori from the sixteenth century: \u201cWhen it was unveiled in 1533, the double portrait <em>The Ambassadors<\/em> by the German and Swiss artist Hans Holbein the Younger must have struck observers as a road bump for the soul. Looked at straight on from the front, the huge oil-on-oak painting is enigmatic enough, presenting to the observer a pair of distinguished diplomats caught in a clutter of worldly amusements: musical instruments and scientific whatnots scattered about the shelves on which they lean \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/story\/20160429-how-optical-illusions-can-save-lives\" target=\"_blank\">But pass by the painting at a shallow angle from the left, such that your eye catches the work by chance in the periphery of its vision, and a mystery tucked into the center of the painting stops you cold<\/a>. Only from that askance vantage do you see the optical illusion Holbein has secretly positioned into the foreground of his work: the cracked cranium of a spooky skull grinning back you.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Today in correlations that seem absurd on the face of it, but then you give them a little thought and you\u2019re like, Oh, yeah, that kind of makes sense: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/is-the-tech-bubble-popping-ping-pong-offers-an-answer-1462286089\" target=\"_blank\">Ping-Pong-table sales are tethered to the fate of the tech industry. As goes tech, so goes Ping-Pong<\/a>. \u201cIs the tech bubble popping? Ping-Pong offers an answer, and the tables are turning \u2026 Table buying \u2018tracks most closely with start-ups that hit that threshold where they\u2019re taking out office space,\u2019 says Russell Hancock, chief executive of think tank Joint Venture Silicon Valley, which follows economic trends. \u2018That\u2019s when you\u2019re going to get your first Ping-Pong table.\u2019 Table sellers seeing a decline include David Vannatta, sales team leader at Sports Authority in San Francisco. The store was getting a \u2018good flow of tech companies\u2019 buying tables, he says, but sales have fallen since Christmas.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Zero K out, Don DeLillo is doing that most un-DeLillo of things: giving interviews. He told Mark O\u2019Connell, \u201cThe novel still exists. And to my mind it still can be called a flourishing form. There are so many good younger writers. 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