The Interesting Times #215 (3.6.24)

Issue #215

• Family secrets and complicated choices. >>Long Island.

• Havering and wavering. >>Long Island.

• Judith Butler thinks you’re overreacting. >>Who’s Afraid of Gender?

• Sex, drugs, rock’n’roll, and cricket. >>First Things.

• Self-portrait in Venice. >>In Italy.

• Freed from the shackles of time. >>Alphabetical Diaries.

• The special challenges of attempting a new translation of Kafka. >>Selected stories.

• Big toes are gross. >>Why Surrealism Matters.

• Are editors still tastemakers?

• Invasion is a structure, not an event.

• The frequentative form.

• Between languages.

• A French silk sample book (c.1900).

• Our film recommendation this week: The Metamorphosis of Birds. >>Interview with the director.

• The head-doctor’s head.

• The inescapable thingness.

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