The Interesting Times #237 (11.11.24)

Issue #237

• The winner is… you, the reader. >>The Booker books.

• What might we use literature for? >>Pretty Ugly.

• A compelling collection of contradictions. >>Pretty Ugly.

• Turning the world inside out. >>Parade.

• It does not have to be this way. >>The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World.

• Escaping expectations. >>Poorhara.

• A writer in the age of angst. >>There Are Rivers in the Sky.

• It’s academic. >>Violent Faculties.

• A discovery and a revelation. >>Leslie Adkin, Farmer photographer.

• Where we begin and end. >>Morning and Evening.

• True dreams. >>Marlow’s Dream.

• Disintegration is ineluctable. >>Herscht 07769.

• Solar sacrifice.

• Viewing the world afresh.

• Our film recommendation this week: Romeo & Juliet: A love song.

• The narrator.

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