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Bob Staake’s cover illustration<\/a> acknowledges President Obama’s statement last week in favour of gay marriages.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Related to the above: Gay rights in the US, state by state<\/a>, an infographic and a useful riposte to people like Orson Scott Card<\/a> (yes, him again) who claim that gay Americans are equal in everything but the right to marry. On the same theme, “Now Obama’s come out on same-sex marriage, maybe so will I,” says Edmund White<\/a> (yes, him again), and Eric Berkowitz<\/a>, author of Sex & Punishment: 4,000 Years of Judging Desire<\/em><\/a>, who writes that “In the period up to roughly the thirteenth century, male bonding ceremonies were performed in churches all over the Mediterranean.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 The fifth edition of A Humument<\/em> by Tom Phillips<\/a> will be published soon by Thames & Hudson. The Tom Phillips website<\/a> has just been relaunched in a form which now incorporates the notes I made in December<\/a> about Phillips’ album cover designs.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Greenfriars<\/a> are encouraging people to follow their example and get involved with their local communities (the habits are optional). Kudos for the choice of a D\u00fcrer knot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The action centres on the arrival of a man who may or may not be a prophet, or the devil, or just a violent con-man, in a rotting, rain-drenched Hungarian hamlet. This is the “estate”, apparently some sort of failed collective, where all hope has been lost and all the buildings are falling down. It is inhabited by a cast of semi-crazed inadequates: desperate peasants cack-handedly trying to rip each other off while ogling each other’s wives; a “perpetually drunk” doctor obsessively watching his neighbours; young women trying to sell themselves in a ruined mill; a disabled girl ineptly attempting to kill her cat.<\/p>\n

S\u00e1t\u00e1ntango<\/a> by L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai is published in a new translation by\u00a0George Szirtes<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 The Quietus interviewed Kevin Shields<\/a> following the long-awaited reissue of the My Bloody Valentine catalogue.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The first volume of Russ Kick’s Graphic Canon<\/em><\/a> (to which I’m a contributor) has been sighted in the wild.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rise of the Living Type<\/a>: Stylised 17th century floriated letterforms & grotesque mask sprinkles.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ed Jansen’s Camera Obscura III<\/em><\/a>, a tour of museums, galleries and venues, 2009\u20132011.<\/p>\n

\u2022 io9 reports on the new translation of Roadside Picnic<\/em><\/a> by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Shanghai Expression<\/a>: Graphic Design in China in the 1920s and 30s.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Liberty Realm<\/a>, a monograph of drawings by Catharyne Ward.<\/p>\n

\u2022 100 mins of Adrian Sherwood<\/a>‘s best dub productions.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Strange Flowers<\/a> checked into the Chelsea Hotel.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Chelsea Girls<\/em><\/a> (1967) by Nico | Chelsea Morning<\/a><\/em> (1968) by Fairport Convention | Chelsea Hotel #2<\/a><\/em>, Rufus Wainwright sings Leonard Cohen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob Staake’s cover illustration acknowledges President Obama’s statement last week in favour of gay marriages. \u2022 Related to the above: Gay rights in the US, state by state, an infographic and a useful riposte to people like Orson Scott Card (yes, him again) who claim that gay Americans are equal in everything but the right … Continue reading “Weekend links 108”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,4,5,48,43,3,14,20,23],"tags":[1593,68,3685,3678,3686,3687,390,901,3679,1519,3682,3680,3683,3681,918,3684,2854,4576,1276,173,2419,2439,164],"class_list":["post-11402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-gay","category-illustrators","category-magazines","category-music","category-politics","category-science-fiction","category-work","tag-adrian-sherwood","tag-albrecht-durer","tag-arkady-strugatsky","tag-bob-staake","tag-boris-strugatsky","tag-catharyne-ward","tag-ed-jansen","tag-edmund-white","tag-eric-berkowitz","tag-fairport-convention","tag-george-szirtes","tag-greenfriars","tag-kevin-shields","tag-laszlo-krasznahorkai","tag-leonard-cohen","tag-my-bloody-valentine","tag-orson-scott-card","tag-roadside-picnic","tag-rufus-wainwright","tag-russ-kick","tag-strange-flowers","tag-the-quietus","tag-tom-phillips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2XU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}