The Interesting Times #220 (8.7.24)

Issue #220

• Wrong on air. >>Wrong Norma.

• Throwing yourself into the dark. >>Wrong Norma.

• The Stuntman. >>Parade.

• Striking out against conformity. >>Parade.

• Falling. >>Performance.

• The instability of a self-portrait. >>Alphabetical Diaries.

• A man walks out of a bar in Eketahuna. >>The Social Space of the Essay.

• Challenging and chic. >>Books pubished by Fitzcarraldo Editions.

• Eight translators get lost in a forest. >>The Extinction of Irena Rey.

• Public reminiscence. >>The Physics of Sorrow.

• Thinking about writing. >>Pretty Ugly.

• Down in the dirt. >>The Children of the Dead.

• Transfixed anew. >>Books by Rachel Kushner.

• How to save a language from extinction.

• Balzac’s Paris in the dark and in the light.

• Ifs and buts.

• The makar Otago-bound.

• Can A.I. make plans?

• Our film recommendation this week: Rain.

• Every day.

• Derrida.

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