The Interesting Times #209 (22.4.24)

Issue #209

• Mothering in late-stage Capitalism. >>Ash.

• The same old tired guilty stick? >>The Unsettled.

• De-enchanting. >>Spent Light.

• Undoubted brilliance. >>Amma.

• A dead river. >>Of Cattle and Men.

• A love letter to Wellington. >>When I Open the Shop.

• The past survives in the telling. >>Rombo.

• A literary sitcom about life, death, and climate change. >>The Extinction of Irena Rey.

• Rewilding. >>The Language of Trees.

• Bloomsbury chic. >>Bring No Clothes.

• A hole at the bottom of the book. >>Ernaux. >>Hole Studies.

• Informality and immediacy. >>Fleur Adcock: Collected Poems.

• The comma from which my heart hangs.

• What is the point of the author interview?

• You are not the messiah.

• The tourist map of literature.

• Japanese schoolbooks.

• Our film recommendation this week: Ghost Dog.

• The latest draft.