The Interesting Times #179 (14.8.23)

Issue #179

• The last of its kind. >>Te Rā.

• Pushing all the buttons at the same time. >>Biography of X.

• A message like you. >>Ten Planets.

• Both well-known and emerging. >>Hiwa.

• Silk maps in his trouser seams. >>John Mulgan and the Greek Left.

• How prison labour built New Zealand. >>Blood and Dirt.

• Dream delivery.

• Surrendering to its own obsessions. >>You, Bleeding Childhood.

• A do-nothing career. >>Rental Person Who Does Nothing.

• Star-crossed. >>Rōmeo rāua ko Hurieta.

• Extracts from the long list. >>The Booker long list.

• As seen on TV. >>Auē.

• Honour killings complled the book. >>Pyre.

• Radio years. >>Radio Benjamin.

• Ten translators on translating.

• What we do in the weekend.

• Our film recommnedation this week: Arcadia.

• Who needs a cookbook? >>Our cookbooks.

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