Open Culture Beat No. 6: The Best Culture Links of the Week

What cultural goodies did we tweet (and re-tweet) on our Twitter stream during the past week? Here are some highlights. Follow us on Twitter at @openculture … or Like us on Facebook. We’ll keep you plugged in…

• A Fresh Look at Flannery O’Connor. You may know her prose, but have you seen her cartoons?
  
• Kafka’s “A Message From the Emperor:” A New Translation. Read it online at The New York Review of Books.
• H.P. Lovecraft’s Commonplace Book, the notebook where he jotted down his ideas.
• David Brooks talks about his new book, The Social Animal, at Google.
• Your Guide to Terrence Malick’s “Tree of Life.” In case you need a primer.
• Alone Together: MIT Prof. Sherry Turkle presents research findings on the colossal impact technology has had on our lives and communities.
• The Homes of 15 Literary Greats: From Shakespeare and Dickens to the Bronte sisters and Agatha Christie. Visit here.
• Stanley Kubrick Writes Letter in 1960 to “the greatest film-maker at work today,” Ingmar Bergman.
• What Drove Ernest Hemingway to Commit Suicide? The FBI.
• The Cutting-Edge Physics of Jackson Pollock. By Lisa Grossman.
• Kurt Vonnegut, prisoner of war in Dresden, describes the ‘obscene brutality’ he witnessed.
• Download Free books from the Albert Einstein Institution on nonviolent political change.
• Noam Chomsky denounces old friend Hugo Chávez for ‘assault’ on democracy.
• Behind the Scenes with Daniel Lanois. Interview with the producer behind U2, Emmylou Harris and Bob Dylan. Audio.
• Incognito: What’s Hiding In The Unconscious Mind. NPR interview with neuroscientist David Eagleman.
• Tim Burton: Nine monster movies that inspired the director.
• Interested in Jeremy Bentham? You can read and transcribe Bentham manuscripts yet to be studied by scholars.
• John Updike: A 90 minute conversation with The New York Times. Added to our Cultural Icons video/audio collection.
• Slavoj Žižek’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in One Minute.
• The Chinese Maze Murders: A Judge Dee Mystery. A free ebook by the University of Chicago Press.
• Richard Dawkins Gets into a Comments War with Feminists.
• Scholars Authenticate Lost Leonardo Painting. Rediscovered after being missing for centuries.
• The Chinese Art of Elegant Bribery, or the role art plays in Chinese corruption.
• Prose/essays by poet Kenneth Rexroth. Read them online.
• The Evolution of the Map of Africa. From 1554 through the 1860s. Great set of images.

Sources: @opedr,  @kottke,  @PeterSinger,  @nprbooks,  @maudnewton,  @matthiasrascher,  @BrainPicker,  @BoingBoing,  @jessebdylan