THE FEED: OCT 28TH

What we're reading:

Indigenous beliefs in "The Masque of Africa"
(Slate): V.S. Naipaul enters the "valley of taboos"

Great artists who died virgins, according to the New Yorker
(L Magazine): Giacomo Leopardi, Hans Christian Andersen, Joseph Cornell, etc

Christopher Hogwood introduces China to Baroque music
(New York Times): It's a good fit because “brilliant technique and great power are what’s most admired in China"

Today's quote:

"Americans today seem quite eager to put their faith in brand names and global conglomerates and to shun old-guard civic institutions like governments, schools, and neighborhood communities. And when it's about the safety of our children, reason easily gives way to hysteria. My scholarly, historical, rational self tells me that psychopaths don't go to the trouble to bake cookies or soak loose lemon drops in LSD. My hovering, nervous, worried mother self doesn't care. Unwrapped jelly beans, into the trash you go."

~Samira Kawash, "The Meaning of Halloween-Candy Psychopath Stories" (Atlantic)

(Via The Economist)

Picture credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com