The Interesting Times #273 (17.2.26)

Issue #273

• The fingerprint and the roller coaster. >>Some Helpful Models of Grief.

• A milieu at odds with itself. >>Sister Europe.

• Connecting the dots. >>Sister Europe.

• Holding the skin girdle. >>The Employees. >>The Wax Child.

• Paragraphs as rooms. >>I Do Know Some Things.

• On Richard Siken. >>I Do Know Some Things.

• Burning with purpose. >>Money to Burn. >>The Devil Book.

• Rip up all the rules. >>A Long Game.

• Edith Holler in the card theatre. >>Edith Holler. >>Download, print, and make the card theatre.

• The art of unsettling. >>Coming. Apart.

• Obsessive surveillance. >>Coming. Apart.

• Transparency and trust. >>How to Rebuild Trust in Journalism.

• The stories we tell become the world we inhabit. >>Between Two Rivers.

• How do you want to spend your free time? >>In Defence of Leisure.

• Craft, critics, and the blurb economy. >>Trip.

• Forced to cross the sea. >>Love Forms.

• Some books on Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

• Education and hope. >>Understanding Te Tiriti. >>Understanding Hauora.

• “Serious” literature. >>Books by Krasznahorkai.

• Do you need a writer’s room?

• The Perec case. >>Place your order now.

• Thomas Mann and the temptations of fascism.

• How A.I. changes the way we think and speak.

• What’s the word for… forgetting words?

• Lowering the risk.

• A new way of creating.

• The best songs inspired by literature — ranked!