It’s literary prize season, and the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse. You’re not going to read in most, if not all, mainstream media reports, but Fosse is known as both a writer and a Catholic writer. Merve Emre at The New Yorker wrote a brief profile, while John Wilson at Prufrock finds some reasons to be encouraged by many of the prizewinners.
In September, we has the great good fortune of being able to see the new exhibition at London’s National Gallery of Art, “Frans Hals.” One of his best-known paintings is “The Laughing Cavalier,” but the entire exhibition was rather wonderful. William Cook at The Spectator enjoyed the exhibition as well, and he wrote about Hals’ sense of fun.
If you’re interested in intelligent, thoughtful book reviews, including those of classic books, you might consider Joel Miller, who writes his Miller’s Book Reviews column on Substack. This past week, two posts in particular were well done – The Strange(r) Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and G.K. Chesterton: The Man Behind the Fence.
More Good Reads
Writing and Literature
Processing: How Dan Sinykin Wrote Big Fiction – Lincoln Michel at Counter Craft.
In Search of Writer’s Haunts – Drug Bruns at The Millions.
The Immense Appeal of Ordinary Characters – Lou Berney at CrimeReads.
So you want to be a writer – poem by Charles Bukowski.
British / Irish Stuff
Raped by the IRA – Josephine Bartosch at The Critic Magazine.
Poetry
Why the Russian Protest Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky Still Matter Today – Philip Metres at Literary Hub.
Poetry Pairs, 5: “Some One” and UT Tower Shooting, 1966 – Megan Willome at Poetry for Life.
The Colour of Dreams in Cryonic Sleep – Roger Hare at Ice Floe Press.
Art
How museum guides are being enlisted in the US culture wars – Julia Halperin at The Art Newspaper.
Raining – watercolor by Sonja Benskin Mesher.
Faith
Psalms for Men Who Are Struggling – Scott Slayton at One Degree to Another.
Today’s Defining Question: What is a Human? – Trevin Wax at The Gospel Coalition.
The Light Never Fades – Kristin Couch at The Palest Ink.
American Stuff
The Dusty Bookshelf: The Slave Power Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style – Max Longley at Emerging Civil War.
Culture
Campus Cowardice and Where the Buck Stops – Bari Weiss at The Free Press.
Hold On – Katy Nichole
Painting: Lady Reading by a Window, oil on canvas by Thomas Benjamin Kennington (1856-1916).
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