The Interesting Times #257 (3.8.25)

Issue #257

• Intelligence is beautiful. >>Invisible Intelligence.

• On the magic of translation. >>Fair.

• Our food, our heritage, our culture. >>Boustany.

• Unexplored depths. >>Ultramarine

• Unspoiled. >>Human/Nature.

• A dark legacy. >>Children of Radium.

• Misogyny in the Metaverse. >> The New Age of Sexism.

• Demanding pleasures.

• Fake nature. >>Hum.

• A new place and a new politics. >>Audition.

• Blown away. >>Collected Works.

• The human condition. >>Annie Bot.

• Difficult mothers. >>Selfish Girls.

• 1037 babies. >>The Origins of You.

• Oppression, Capitalism and control. >>The Unworthy.

• PANZ Book Design Awards 2025 finalists.

• Rat universes.

• Sprayed edges.

• The Living Ancestor.

• The Ballpoint Pens. [We hope the link works this time!]

• On the ark.

• What’s happening to reading?

• Speaking reassurance to power. >>Books by Pankaj Mishra.

• A book stall in the rubble.

• Writers write with urgency.

• “I am not a melodramatic person.”

• Where life is seized.

• Language alienates us from the self.

• Our film recommendation this week: I’m Still Here.

• If Charlie Brown were a Socialist. >>Mafalda.