The Interesting Times #260 (26.8.25)

Issue #260

• Dust words, dust worlds. >>Dust.

• The origin of language. >>Parade.

• Where they write. >>The 2025 Booker long list.

• Not always calm on the inside. >>When the Museum Is Closed.

• All good novels make you think about what a novel can do. >>One Boat.

• Representation. >>Your copies.

• The more you do, the more difficult it gets. >>Minor Detail.

• The swamp disgorges its secrets. >>Kataraina.

• A friction between the line and the sentence. >>I Do Know Some Things.

• Dropped onto an alien planet. >>Flashlight.

• How women listen. >>Hark.

• Stacks. >>Wrong Norma.

• The joys of Moominscrolling. >>Visit the Moomins.

• Ellen Jones recommends. >>Outrage.

• Forever changed. >>Two Serious Ladies.

• A sublimely inaccurate portrait.

• Getting literature out there.

• Bach annotated by Gould. >>1981.

• Backtracking on a promise. >>Submit!

• Our film recommendation this week: It Must Be Heaven.

• A Dickensian alphabet.