The Interesting Times #259 (19.8.25)

Issue #259

• Rehearsal /41. >>Diary of an Ending.

• Radical ways. >>Precarious Lease.

• Early contact. >>The Welcome of Strangers.

• A legacy to match. >>William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love.

• The experience of Palestine in narration. >>Minor Detail.

• Do it badly if you must. >>The Safekeep.

• Killing animals. >>Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.

• Family farm. >>Wifedom.

• Why do we make art? >>What Art Does.

• Exploring who we are. >>Salutation Road.

• Part of me will remain. >>Sympathy Tower Tokyo.

• Death at the zoo. >>Animal Stories.

• Always inadequate. >>Books by Vivian Gornick.

• What Becky is reading. >>Books by Becky Manawatu.

• A good poet. >>Books by Alice Oswald.

• A poetry map of Skye.

• The widening gyre.

• How dreams change under authoritarianism.

• Erasure notebooks.

• An updated Kiwi Christmas classic.

• A digital marae.

• The smear of non-being.

• Take away our language and we will forget who we are. >>Decolonising Language, And other revolutionary ideas.

• Adam Shatz’s Berlin diary. >>The Rebel’s Clinic.

• Is it wrong to anthropomorphise animals? >>Books by Megan Dunn.

• Shyness.

• The game of kings.

• Operation Frog (1984).

• The last date in Gaza.

• If only we had known before trying this in ‘real’ life!

• Our film recommendation this week: Killer of Sheep.

• A new educational chart.