The Interesting Times #242 (13.1.25)

Issue #242

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

• The art of writing a cookbook. >>French Cooking for One.

• The power of the book. >>The Message.

• Fame and license. >>Memories of Distant Mountains.

• Navigating romance and the Patriarchy. >>Reinventing Love.

• Attrition in friendship. >>Understanding Brecht.

• Everything upside down. >>Biography of X.

• No place like home. >>Stranger in My Own Land.

• The cheap books problem.

• Embracing ambiguity — one sentence at a time.

• The illustrated envelopes of Edward Gorey. >>Born to Be Posthumous.

• A history of Janet Frame’s desk. >>A history of Janet Frame’s other desk. >>The Table.

• A guide to the Regulatory Standards Bill.

• 391.

• Enough already.

• Out of the cesspit.

• Couldn’t put it down.

• Our film recommendation this week: 45 Years.

• Live and learn.

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