The Interesting Times #167 (22.5.23)

Issue #167

• All hail the Book of the Year. >>The Axeman’s Carnival.

• How Deborah Levy can change your life. >>August Blue.

• Readings from the International Booker Prize short list. >>Get your copies now.

• “I need to tell you this.” >>Ducks.

• Everyone is going away. >>Ten Planets.

• A garden in this wretched world. >>A Mountain to the North, A Lake to The South, Paths to the West, A River to the East.

• Birth, death, and love poems. >>Calamities! >> This Is a Story about Your Mother.

• “My life is the material.” >>Love Me Tender.

• “I don’t just want you to love me.” >>Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors.

• The house on El Estero. >>This Is Not Miami.

• If it’s not a risk, it’s nothing. >>Books by Annie Ernaux (recommended!).

• Scenes from a childhood. >>Scenes from a Childhood.

• Body as grammar.

• Language as Jenga tower.

• New movements in contemporary architecture.

• The test of innocence.

• Our film recommendation this week: Memoria.

• Kafka’s alphabet.

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