The Interesting Times #188 (16.10.23)

Issue #188

• Gestures of refusal. >>Study for Obedience.

• Apocalyptic thinking. >>End Times.

• The story reteller. >>The Plague.

• Can you conquer death by depicting your life on paper? >>Beyond the Door of No Return.

• “You must invent to tell the true story.” >>Star 111.

• Making New Zealand. >>Blood and Dirt.

• The Quaker Comet. >>The Fearless Benjamin Lay.

• The chairman’s Fosse favourites. >>Septology

• A Nobel in the living room. >>Transit’s edition of Septology.

• What was literary fiction?

• Literature is needed in cruel and painful times. >>Thomas’s review of Minor Detail.

• Poetic science. >>How to Be a Good Creature.

• Physical things retain memory. >>Collection of Sand.

• William Blake’s printing process.

• The journey that matters. >>Some books by Le Guin.

• The rise of dystopian fiction.

• For goodness’ sake.

• An innovative subversion of the male gaze. >>Boy Parts.

• Translation, sheep, &c.

• London in November.

• Superstitions About Animals.

• Our film recommendation this week: Gagarine.

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