The Interesting Times #240 (17.12.24)

Issue #240

• Joy of joys. >>Orbital.

• Not a book, except by its necessary containment in a physical form. >>Whaea Blue.

• Not so far apart. >>Unfinished and Far Far Away.

• Why the novel matters. >>The Position of Spoons.

• Anarchism and principle of play. >>The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World.

• Predicament. >>Future Jaw-Clap.

• The punks of jazz. >>Future Jaw-Clap.

• The reverse bug. >>An Absence of Cousins.

• Translating Japanese’s many words for ‘I’. >>The City and Its Uncertain Walls. >>An I-Novel.

• The unbearable ennui of office life. >>Bullshit Jobs.

• A book for every year of your life: 0—30. >>Build the bookcase.

• The art of watching and the art of being watched. >>The Sleepers.

• According to Alice.

• Kafka’s screwball tragedy. >>Investigations of a Dog.

• What does a translator do?

• Under the radar. >>An incisive submission.

• On Nietzsche Mountain.

• Chronic illness and creative recuperation. >>Enacting the disease.

• With Clarice in Washington. >>Books by Clarice Lispector.

• Books that exist only in books.

• Our film recommendation this week: Janet Planet.

• Creating the perfect library.

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