This week in San Francisco …

Monday 1/16: Join International Workers of the World activists and scholars at Green Arcade  for a discussion on the recent re-release of Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology, including 40 pages of previously unpublished material. Free, 7pm The Green Arcade.   Bay Area groundbreaker Youth Speaks holds its annual Bring in the Noise for Martin Luther King slam. $6-20, 7pm, Herbst Theater.
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Like most things I liked when I was 16, I first got into Adrian Tomine’s comics because of my older sister, who let me borrow her early issues of Optic Nerve. …more

“Arts & Letters,” the Spring issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, is perhaps the magazine’s most unabashed celebration of nostalgia yet, which is saying a lot for a publication that indulges as much in the work of Sappho and Seneca as it does in that of contemporary writers, artists and thinkers.

In his opening essay, Lewis Lapham walks us through the last century of America’s tumultuous relationship with its artists, becoming wistful for, of all things, the Eisenhower administration …more

At a recent n+1 panel discussion, Malcolm Gladwell, James Wood, and Christine Smallwood discussed God as trade, unmetaphysical writers, and intellectualism versus how religion makes you feel. …more