THE FEED: SEP 22ND

What we're reading:

A tricky dance
(JTA): Two New York-based human rights groups have organised a boycott of the Batsheva Dance Company

Literacy rates in India
(Boston Globe): How music videos are triggering a literacy boom

Museum funding cuts in Britain
(Guardian): Jonathan Jones declares that they are a "danger to democracy"

Today's quote:

"The language a writer uses to create a world is that world, and [Jonathan] Franzen’s strenuously contemporary and therefore juvenile language is a world in which nothing important can happen... A writer like Franzen, who describes two lovers as “fucking,” trivializes their relationship accordingly. The result is boredom."

~ B.R. Myers, "Smaller Than Life" (Atlantic)

(Via The Economist)

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