Sunday links
John Wyver writes: I’ve spent so much of the past few days reading and listening to informed and important analysis of the dreadful events in Ukraine, and of course I could have filled today’s selections with many of those links. Things are happening so fast and furiously, and so perhaps the best thing I can do is to recommend the Guardian, The New York Times, Politico, New Statesman, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic among many other sources, and choose instead to highlight a handful of alternatives. If I have the heart and energy I’ll add some more suggestions later.
• Mark Ravenhill on Blackmail – the sensational thriller that shook Hitchcock and me: the playwright writes for the Guardian about the filmmaker and the source for his classic thriller in Charles Bennett’s original play.
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Hope Dickson Leach on her immersive new take on the gothic classic: an interview with Heeyeon Park for the BFI website about a hybrid version of Stevenson’s classic that embraces a live event in Leith and a screen version for cinemas.
• One of my favourite Twitter threads of the week:
• An Introduction to The Project of Independence: Architectures ofDecolonization in South Asia, 1947–1985: in an extract from their exhibition catalogue Martino Stierli and Anoma Pieris introduce the MoMA, New York show that I so wish I could visit…
• A new exhibition space gives Prague’s art scene some spark: … and I’d love to see this show also, ‘Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art’ at Kunsthalle Praha, reported on here by Annabelle Chapman for The New York Times.
• The elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency: an extraordinary ‘jobfishing’ story from BBC News, reported by Leo Sands, Catrin Nye, Divya Talwar and Benjamin Lister.
• Stupid questions [£ but limited free access]: Laleh Khalili for LRB on the writings of Cal McChrystal, American special forces, US imperialism and lessons for corporate boardrooms.
• Lakeland roads: Luke McKernan on the Romantic poets, walking in the Lake District and steamrollers.
• Renewing the land question – against greengrabbing and green colonialism: lots of interesting and provocative ideas in this essay by Alex Heffron and Kai Heron for New Socialist.
• Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of New York performs Prayer for Ukraine, as the ‘cold open’ for last night’s edition of Saturday Night Live:
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