Weekly Roundup — August 3

Highlights from this week on Three Percent:

• We raved about the ever-fascinating UbuWeb, especially UbuWeb Radio and the Dali movie homage to Raymond Roussel;

• One of my all-time favorite TV shows is Lost, and I gleefully fed my favorite addiction by posting the new Dharma video, which first aired appeared at ComicCon;

• A couple reviews (Village Voice and New Yorker) of Robert Walser’s The Assistant appeared this week;

• And we posted our own reviews of Simenon’s The Engagement and Monzo’s The Enormity of the Tragedy

• Issue 9 of Literal went online, as did excerpts from issue 4 of A Public Space, and the new Believer

• Charles Simic was named poet laureate;

• The Guardian continued its world tour in Ireland

• and last, but definitely entertaining, Robert Olen Butler sent out a cry for help to everyone that wasn’t about the difficulties his wife has living in his impressive, Pulitzer-winning shadow.