• More Nabokov: The University Poem by Vladimir Nabokov, translated by Dmitri Nabokov and read by Ralph Fiennes. And Breitensträter – Paolino, a short story from Nabokov’s Russian period that’s only just been translated into English.
• More LSD: “For decades, the U.S. government banned medical studies of the effects of LSD. But for one longtime, elite researcher, the promise of mind-blowing revelations was just too tempting,” says Tim Doody.
• More Marker: The Guarded Intimacy of Sans soleil by Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Revolutionary Cinema of Chris Marker by Patrick Higgins, and Chris Marker’s Faces by Brian Dillon.
• “A private realm, not easily penetrated, from which emerged music that would give rise to so much of the music we know today.” Guy Horton on Kraftwerk’s Kling Klang studio.
• A narrative from the swamps of Borneo: BLDGBLOG on the mephitic enigma of London’s sewers.
• At Coilhouse: The Incredibly True Adventures of Gerda Wegener and Lili Elbe.
• “What some people call idleness is often the best investment,” says Ed Smith.
• Book cover design: Rick Poynor on Pierre Faucheux and Le Livre de Poche.
• Metaphysical psychedelia: Erik Davis on Rick Griffin: Superstar.
• Diamanda Galás discusses her 13 favourite albums.
• Rudy Rucker’s Memories of Kurt Gödel.
• The Men of the Folies Bergère
• The songs of bowhead whales | Another Moon Song (2009) by Espers | One Thousand Birds (2012) by Six Organs of Admittance.