The Interesting Times #247 (17.3.25)

Issue #247

• Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. >>You Are Here.

• More of an observer. >>Mountainish.

• Nothing is done because it was there. >>Mountainish.

• Can we ever rely on our brains? >>Changing My Mind.

• The scent of citrus. >>On a Woman’s Madness.

• This is wrong. >>Who’s Afraid of Gender?

• Making a claim on language. >>Minor Detail.

• A Taiwanese novel masquerading as a rediscovered Japanese novel. >>Taiwan Travelogue.

• Reduced to a lego block. >>Mammoth.

• Does writing matter? >>Question 7.

• A garden in this wretched world. >>A Mountain to the North, A Lake to the South, Paths to the West, A River to the East.

• Health anxiety and the writer’s calling. >>Kafka’s diaries.

• The Natural. >>Vehicle.

• The future of fiction and truth. >>Never Let Me Go.

• Celan’s ferryman. >>Under the Dome.

• The past is in the present is in the future.

• Rocks and racism. >>Rock Against Racism.

• Our film recommendation this week: Hive.

• Also: The Battle of Algiers.

• Roz and Emily eat their way through Midwood.

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