THE FEED: NOV 9TH

What we're reading:

Queen of the Nile
(New Yorker): A podcast on our enduring fascination with Cleopatra, and "how her legendary seductive powers affect even her biographers"

The man who invented Hollywood
(Slate): Adolf Zukor, whose greatest fascination was understanding audiences

"The secret magic of Renaissance art"
(Guardian): On visual curses, magical Madonnas and astral signs

Today's quote:

"Just as the printing boom of Restoration England generated a crisis of authorship amid debates over copyright, the consumer boom of the Internet era has produced a crisis of artistic status amid debates over intellectual property. A sense of threat to art's elevated status is central to the strange yearning for free culture among those who should otherwise hope to make their living from their creative work, and to the unfortunate marriage between those writers and artists who claim to revere culture and those consumers, entrepreneurs and Internet absolutists who would like to liquidate it."

~ David Wallace-Wells, "The Pirate's Prophet: On Lewis Hyde" (Nation)

(Via The Economist)

Picture credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com