THE FEED: MAR 18TH

What we're reading:

Against beauty (New Republic)

Adam Kirsch on Zadie Smith's concerns about her own fiction

Colour blind, pitch perfect (Discovery News)

Children choose friends according to similar speech patters rather than skin colour

Not for children (San Francisco Chronicle)

A violent and bleak "Little Mermaid" ballet

Museums: the new guard (New York Times)

A special section on the next generation of museum curators

Today's quote:

"There's not been much wit and not much joy, there's a lot of grimness out there... There are a lot of books about Asian sisters. There are a lot of books that start with a rape. Pleasure seems to have become a rather neglected element in publishing."

~ Daisy Goodwin, "Spare us your misery, Orange prize judge tells authors" (Guardian)

(Via The Economist) Picture credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com