The Interesting Times #180 (21.8.23)

Issue #180

• Putting Pākehā in the shoes of a colonised people. >>Turncoat.

• Deadbeat dads, werd kids, school bullies. >>Tsunami.

• The agony of the ‘enemy’ language. >>The Illiterate.

• Technology, attention, and the extremely long paragraph. >>Books by Thomas Bernhard.

• The hidden history of prison labour. >>Blood and Dirt.

• Sheer talent. >>Hiwa.

• Living with death. >>The Plague.

• Hallucinatory realsim. >>No Love Lost.

• A woman metamorphoses into a fitness influencer. >>Chrysalis.

• Writing from the ghosthouse. >>In Memory of Memory.

• Oblique memories. >>The Song of Youth.

• Home is where the heart/hurt/hatred/hearth/hope is.

• Women in translation.

• Where to start. >>Start now.

• What can se say? >>Investigations, &c, by L.W.

• A rattlesna(k)e.

• Victor Hugo’s most underappreciated work.

• Radical histories in a surveillance archive.

• What does it mean (for a machine) to understand?

• Very nice.

• First encounter with a 37km-tall alien.

• Our film recommendation this week: The L-Shaped Room.

• Instant artist statement.

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