The Interesting Times #256 (20.7.25)

Issue #256

• Morbid symptoms. >>Theory & Practice.

• Opaque sap. >>Ultramarine.

• The living, the dead, and sailors. >>Ultramarine

• Inside a character. >>Delirious.

• Write less; write stronger. >>Call Me Ishmaelle.

• Verbs explode a constricted throat. >>The Anatomy of Sand.

• A second heart. >>Slender Volumes.

• Oppression, capitalism, control. >>The Unworthy.

• No protection. >>Books by Raja Shehadeh.

• Selective Luddism. >>Powsels and Thrums.

• An efficient man. >>38 Londres Street.

• The other girl. >>Granta 172. >>Books by Annie Ernaux.

• Out of time. >>Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming.

• Three giants. >>Audition.

• The definitive ranking of reading technologies.

• An east wind behind it.

• On writing a novel without knowing or planning anything. >>Absence.

• Fabulism, paranoia and allegory. >>Books by Dino Buzzati.

• The grammar of a god-ocean.

• Dyed-in-the-wool Modernism.

• In from the margins.

• Left turns.

• The black paintings.

• The Ballpoint Pens.

• This bothers you more than it should.

• Natsume Sōseki’s study.

• Pareo ergo sum.

• Our film recommendation this week: Small Things Like These. >>Read the book!

• The perfect job.