The Interesting Times #185 (25.9.23)

Issue #185

• Failure, error, and incapacity. >>Some Things Wrong.

• Not something that happens in a second. >>My Work.

• Looking good.

• Elusive identities. >> Dark Neighbourhood.

• On populism, post-truth, and piggybacking. >>Beasts of England.

• On building a story from details. >>After the Funeral.

• A new kind of book for a new kind of world. >>Paku Manu Ariki Whakatakapōkai.

• The long and the short of it. >>Wall.

• His eyes, her voice. >>Greek Lessons.

• Who cares about the page count? >>The Bee Sting.

• Waiting for the miracle. >>Dark Neighbourhood.

• Hearing the voices of the dead. >>The Variations.

• Brilliant, not “good”. >>The Drowned World.

• Everything you need to know about the 2023 Booker Prize short list. >>Your copies of the books!

• A dream house of words. >>The Lights.

• The architecture of dreams.

• The story of Lorem Ipsum.

• Our film recommendation this week: Loving Highsmith.

• The book was better.

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