Featuring Michael Palmer’s “Letter to St. Petersberg,” Giorgio Agamben’s “The Fire and the Tale,” Alain Badiou on the artist Pierre Soulages, Kevin Simmonds on Leontyne Price’s last performance, Cole Swenson on Andre des Gachons’s Watercolors of weather, Alain Badiou on Black as an Invention of White People, David Lau on the Political Turn in Poetry, Laura Martin on Roland Barthes as a Young Marxist, and Carlos Lara’s translation of Louis Aragon’s classic essay on the beginning of Surrealism.