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