Top Ten for October 1, 2021
Review of a 1989 Jasper Johns exhibition by William H Gass, Jerry Saltz on Johns, also Redo an Eye, the monograph which accompanies Johns’ catalogue raisonné
Dover Quartet playing Beethoven – a revelation
As More Workers Go Solo, the Software Stack Is the New Firm
The new Foundation adaptation – there's also an excellent 1973 BBC radio adaptation which hews a lot closer to the books
Why everything is becoming a subscription
Barbados PM at the UN speaking for everyone left out of the First World
Taylor Ho Bynum on the new Seattle Love Supreme
Seeing so many divisive binaries in the world – opinions, political parties – makes me wish Brian Eno's 'axis thinking' became a common heuristic (also: review of The Scout Mindset which exhorts us all to be good Bayesians)
Mitchell & Webb – Identity Theft and Dr. Glaucomflecken – Who Do You Work For