The Interesting Times #251 (20.5.25)

Issue #251

• Weighing up the contenders. >>Your pick.

• Mother Morning, Mother Afternoon, and Mother Night. >>The Book of Guilt.

• Why 1979, specifically? >>The Book of Guilt.

• Disrupting stereotypes. >>Hine Toa.

• Squinting at mountains. >>Mountainish.

• Flooded roads, falling rocks. >>Mountainish.

• Notes on danger and dialogue. >>Mountainish.

• How should we respond to what has been lost? >>Slowing the Sun.

• A struggle or a gift? >>Slowing the Sun.

• The morning after. >>Delirious. >>The other winners.

• The lessons we’re still to learn. >>The Covid Response.

• i am elsewhere. >>rock flight.

• In search of a home. >>All recommended by us!

• Man flicking free of feet.

• Anything could happen. >>Boodle Boodle Boodle.

• Why we still need novels. >>There Are Rivers in the Sky.

• My sadness is not a burden. >>Things in Nature Merely Grow.

• Exquisite, craggy detail. >>Clear.

• The rooms of fiction.

• Drafting Mrs Dalloway. >>Mrs Dalloway.

• 100 Mrs Dalloways.

• Against algorithms.

• Who’s eating publishers’ lunch?

• Does the unconscious exist?

• It cannot be denied.

• Words themselves are under threat.

• Huia. >>Wow.

• How to write a book.

• The world’s shortest maths article.

• Ivor Cutler interviews Ivor Cutler.

• Show your face.

• Body on the edge of crisis.

• Our film recommendation this week: Head South.

• How to focus on writing your book.

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