The Interesting Times #254 (29.6.25)

Issue #254

• No redeeming qualities. >>Pretty Ugly. >>Talking Books.

• Exploded essays. >>The Vast Extent.

• Oppositional beauty. >>Ugliness.

• The human art of translation. >>Fair. >>Speaking in tongues.

• Transmission. >>Fair. >>(Transmission.) (>>Mind Jail (featuring Jen Calleja))

• Outer and inner space. >>The Anatomy of Sand.

• Prose stripped to the bone and the bone itself boiled white. >>The Unnamable.

• Less matters more. >>Vertigo.

• The characters yearn for connection. >>The Accidentals.

• Something is surviving. >>The Empusium.

• Olga Tokarczuk’s divine cosmos. >>Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.

• The bridge builder.

• Posterity.

• After the Haiku Period. >>Books by Joy Williams.

• The radical notion of the third act. >>Marina Abramović Turned Herself into Art and Wasn’t Sorry.

• How to destroy 500,000 books.

• A warning for us here, even.

• Film has its own language and the novelist has her own language. >>Hot Milk. >>Hot Milk.

• A forced literary migration.

• Drying out.

• What’s wrong with me?

• Our film recommendation this week: Fremont.

• An author’s visit to the lost property office.