Top Ten for May 24, 2021
John Richardson may be dead, but the fourth volume of his Picasso bio arrives in November
Jim Woodring talks about David Lindsay’s bizarre 1920 novel Voyage to Arcturus – an edition featuring Woodring’s illustrations is out via Beehive Books
Napoleon may be a collective delusion via Ted Gioia’s Substack
Excellent explainer vid on the recent events in Gaza – it’s a shame news outlets can’t package the conflict in such an understandable and even-handed way as this
“Geometrical and Topological Analogues of Rubik's Cube”
Poulenc’s Sonata for Two Clarinets (FP 7, 1918) perf. Ronald van Spaendonck & André Moisan
Washington state’s long-awaited capital gains tax and how it came to be
Review of Peter Zeihan’s book The Accidental Superpower
Cambridge’s Prof. Christopher Clark on the 1848 Revolutions