The Interesting Times #258 (11.8.25)

Issue #258

• Shaken through by the wind. >>Girlbeast.

• Memory trying to touch the bottom of the deep lake. >>Clay Eaters. >>The Anatomy of Sand. >>In the Cracks of Light.

• Like no recipe book you’ve ever read. >>The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club.

• Made with resourcefulness, memory, and love. >>Boustany.

• Bread. >>This Compulsion In Us.

• A T-shirt in K-mart. >>Slowing the Sun.

• Cultural exchange. >>Proto.

• Fiction helps us get closer to the truth. >>Small Boat.

• 100 years don’t weight me down. >>Lexicon of Affinities.

• Who are your rivers? >>Is a River Alive?

• Baseline Communism. >>The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World.

• What does a translator do?

• Don’t we all want to be happy? >>Erik Satie Three Piece Suite.

• Another form of imperialism. >>Perfection.

• Ngā whetū.

• Lost in tragedy.

• Transformation, anyone? >>Selected Stories.

• Sharpen your pencils.

• Unforbidden.

• Why generative A.I. won’t disrupt books.

• On resistance.

• Hoping for a(nother) miracle.

• Who is behind the new curricula?

• Represented and reconnected. >>The Whale Rider (deluxe edition).

• “Safety”.

• Assaulting democracy.

• A line that cuts to the heart. >>This House of Grief.

• Immediate and complete.

• Consequences.

• Our film recommendation this week: Mouthpiece.

• One for Shane Jones.