Your guide to this week's best cultural links

There Will Be Blood, shown as part of the Rolling Roadshow film festival

Literature:

Penguin Books celebrates 75 years
J. D. Salinger: A rare photograph of the reclusive American author, erm, putting on his socks
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Quoted on politics and personal vanity
Oxfam Used Books: Summer Sale begins
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: A collection of their correspondence is published
Gabriel Josipovici: Criticism of British novelists, including Ian McEwan and Martin Amis
Gabriel Josipovici: New book, What Ever Happened to Modernism?
Jorge Luis Borges: Interview with Borges translator Suzanne Jill Levine on the writer's influence on Latin American fiction
Arthur Koestler: TLS reviews Michael Scammel's new biography
Virginia Woolf: James Wood on Virginia Woolf and the anxiety of influence
Jeanette Winterson: Lauren Elkin on how Winterson makes fiction
Christopher Hitchens on J. D. Salinger
Electric Literature: Issue 4 is out now

Philosophy & Critical Theory:

Jean-Paul Sartre: Routledge Critical Thinkers series
Jacques Derrida: Josh Cohen summarizes some of the central ideas of the late French philosopher

Theatre

Samuel Beckett: Michael Gambon's performance in Krapp's Last Tape moves from Dublin to London this September
William Shakespeare: Al Pacino's performance as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice moves to Broadway

Film & Television:

UK Film Council Axed
Samuel Beckett: Billie Whitelaw introduces a filmed performance of her role in Beckett's Not I
Rolling Roadshow Film Festival: Includes There Will Be Blood, The Blues Brothers, Rocky, RoboCop and more
Designing Mad Men
Mad Men Summer Reading List
Inception: Hans Zimmer discusses hidden patterns in his score for Christopher Nolan's recent blockbuster, Inception

Art & Design:

American Photography in Colour, 1939-1943
Otto Dix Exhibition

Etc.

Stewart Lee: An extract from the stand-up comedian's new book, How I Escaped My Certain Fate

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• Working with Samuel Beckett
  

  Working with Samuel Beckett

  Billie Whitelaw, Jean Martin and others share their memories of the renowned modern playwright I...

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• Samuel Beckett: Works for Radio
  

  Samuel Beckett: Works for Radio

  In a 2007 issue of Hyperion , Mark Daniel Cohen discusses the British Library release of Samuel...

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• Billie Whitelaw on Beckett and Play
  

  Billie Whitelaw on Beckett and Play

  In an autobiography that chronicles twenty-five years as Samuel Beckett's favourite actress...

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• Waiting for Beckett Documentary
  Waiting for Beckett Documentary

  Rare feature-length documentary on the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett This incredibly rare television documentary includes interviews with a number of Beckett's friends, colleagues and...

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• Samuel Beckett's 'Not I' at London's South Bank
  

  Samuel Beckett's 'Not I' at London's South Bank

  Nicholas Lezard has reviewed a recent production of Samuel Beckett's Not I , performed as part...

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