Otis Redding, John Ashbery, the corruption of soccer

Sunday reading on nybooks.com: The corruption of global soccer, a life of Otis Redding, poems by John Ashbery, a show trial in Russia, a newspaper shutdown in Cambodia, and the art of Grayson Perry. Sponsored by [Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group]( [Soccer’s Culture of Corruption]( Simon Kuper Soccer is almost as powerful a global force as FIFA pretends it is, which is why the world’s rising nations have got their hands on it. [Five Magnificent Years]( Geoffrey O’Brien It is astonishing to realize what a relatively small percentage of Otis Redding’s time was devoted to making the records that preserve his art. John Ashbery (1927–2017) [Summer Reading]( (2008) [Ignorance of the Law Is No Excuse]( (2004) [From Estuaries, from Casinos]( (1990) [Ditto, Kiddo]( (1984) [Mixed Feelings]( (1975) NYR Daily [A Show Trial in Moscow]( Amy Knight Alexei Ulyukaev is the first Kremlin minister to be charged with a crime while in office since 1953. [The Crackdown in Cambodia]( John Saunders The government’s shutdown of a fiercely independent newspaper is a sign of the West’s waning influence over Hun Sen. [The Outside-In Art of Grayson Perry]( Jenny Uglow His work is full of bounding energy, a combination of wit, silliness, seriousness, anger, insight, and compassion. Calendar [Simon Rattle at the Berlin Philharmonic]( [Henry James and American Painting]( [This Ever New Self: Thoreau and His Journal]( [Amit Dutta’s Cinematic Museum]( [Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry]( The New York Review of Books 435 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 [Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe](