The Interesting Times #279 (21.4.26)

Issue #279

• The International Booker shortlist films. >>The International Booker shortlist books.

• Tongue. >>My Dreadful Body.

• Silence speaks. >>My Dreadful Body.

• Madness and philosophy. >>On the Greenwich Line.

• A passage and a slideshow. >>On the Greenwich Line.

• Fifty shades of whiteness. >>On the Greenwich Line.

• Protect that pain. >>Discipline.

• Writing toward the void. >>Discipline.

• ”I want to lie.” >>Discipline.

• Like a free-flowing river. >>We Are Green and Trembling.

• Dissecting the rot. >>The Rot.

• Poetry, rage, and the power of not surrendering. >>The Rot.

• Getting evil freely. >>Ghost Driver.

• Calamities and care. >>Night, Ma.

• The closely noticed husband. >>Night, Ma.

• A one-sentence review. >>The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise.

• Questioning the quotidian. >>The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise.

• The last of many libraries. >>Books, A Manifesto.

• Theories of attraction. >>Black Bag.

• A commercial chiller unit. >>Black Bag.

• Endless hype queues. >>All Consuming.

• Books and paper. >>I Found Myself…

• All they will find is sand. >>Hollow Land.

• What the garden remembers. >>Three Stories of Forgetting.

• Womanhood, identity, and fairy tales. >>Seasons of Glass and Iron.

• There is no art that is separate from politics. >>Seasons of Glass and Iron.

• The no-self minority. >>The Man Without Qualities.

• Where’s the plan?

• Prisoners into poets.

• Deep grief, self-belief, and chocolate cake.

• Our film recommendation this week: Les Créatures.

• The librarians who take children.