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Interesting Times No. 35

small lives; CHINS ARE IN; gilded worlds; on effort and privilege; 'the houses have eyes now'; American satire

May 30 •

August 2024

The shadow self; Meatfluencers; pet culture; 'Myths of Merit and Deservingness'; Anna Nicole Smith; contaminated bodies; mass hysteria; 'Takeout Kids'

Aug 30, 2024 •

March 2024

Antinatalists; 'Take what you love and make an Ark out of it'; beige food; Hello Kitty; helpful delusions; WINE-WORLD SWINDLER!; Brutalist churches…

Mar 26, 2024 •

January 2024

Clutter; 'Data-Free Disney'; teeth (again); public toilets; 'a chilling American emptiness'; drama in Palm Beach; on hoarding; Tom Sainsbury's books

Jan 31, 2024 •

December 2023

'late confessions'; a Burning Man report; 'memory is wet sand'; squeamishness; Frederick Wiseman; birth; 'rizz'; Marta Becket; book lists

Dec 16, 2023 •

September 2023

Sauna culture; fake TV brands; 'Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream'; BOOK RECS!; technology/concentration; petty landlords; Nell Zink; 'revolting' foods

Sep 29, 2023 •

August 2023

Internet cafes; a fake Rothschild; birth/midwives/history; 'What is Lifestyle?'; fake illnesses; Gen-X; Vanessa Winship; 'an age of moralists'

Aug 31, 2023

July 2023

Space colony art; Viking food; a mouse called Jill; 'AI is a lot of work'; smells/clean bodies; seven deadlier sins; SHORT STORIES!; a teenage diary…

Jul 28, 2023 •

May 2023

Diner art; filth; hypochondria; dangerous cheese; white lies; a renters' utopia; 'food is for the weak and striving'; Magdalena Abakanowicz; the…

May 26, 2023 •

April 2023

Hera Lindsay Bird; a rat czar; space burials; teeth; AI in art; unlived lives; Kevin Wilson; a fish pics ban; hikikomori; 'the romance of being number…

Apr 28, 2023 •

March 2023

Mall food; baby landlords; getting rid of things; helicopter parents; on mobs; Succession; polyester; Havana Syndrome; 'everyone needs to grow up'; AI…

Mar 31, 2023 •

January 2023

Interesting Times No. 24

Old menus; the sensitive plant; on cringing; Nan Goldin; Club Freud; book burners; Michael Imperioli; 'evaporated people'; ageing bodies; archive moles…

Jan 29, 2023 •

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