Stranger Suggests: Your Agenda This Week, August 24–August 30

MONDAY 8/24Kavi Yaga with Diana XinLINAARPS PHOTOGRAPHY(LITERATURE) I recently devoured the novel Martyr! by poet, novelist, and editor Kaveh Akbar, so when I found out that he’d chosen Hyderabad, India-based author Kavi Yaga’s debut short story collection The Vanishings for The George Garrett Fiction Prize, my interest was immediately piqued. Akbar wrote, “I love what The Vanishings makes of empty space, of the disappeared and disappearing, the once-longed-for, the self, the