The Interesting Times #214 (27.5.24)

Issue #214

• Incompletely unwritten. >>Some Things Wrong.

• It’s too easy for Pākehā to do nothing. >>Audition.

• Vital to write, vital to publish, vital to read. >>Hine Toa.

• Paintings, ruminations, digressions. >>Women Holding Things.

• A ‘quiet’ children’s novel. >>Brown Bird.

• More than a divorce memoir. >>Splinters.

• A different kind of love story. >>Splinters.

• An extinction event. >>Hard by the Cloud House.

• A hidden but necessary labour. >>The Long Form.

• Why is our culture so obsessed with individual experience? >>Immediacy.

• The waxing of affect. >>Immediacy.

• An eclectic catalogue. >>The Book of All Loves.

• The art of estrangement. >>Childhood, Youth, Dependency.

• Anticipating the world in which we live. >>Selected Stories.

• Phonetic sounds and the written form of te reo.

• Publishers are already using too much A.I.

• To whom does Rosa Luxemburg belong?

• The secrets of the Roman catacombs.

• Eight films by Dziga Vertov.

• Our film recommendation this week: Riceboy Sleeps.

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