The Interesting Times #263 (15.9.25)

Issue #263

• Ake! Ake! Ake!

• Always somewhere else. >>Terrier, Worrier.

• Echoes in the dome. >>Wildcat Dome.

• Democracy under pressure. >>How to Save Democracy.

• Tea, scones, and justice. >>Hope and Hardship.

• Brave new words. >>Gliff.

• Hei whakanui. >>Poto.

• What we choose to remember. >>Forgotten.

• “My child has gone into the next moment.” >>Paper Crown.

• Radioactive toothpaste. >>Children of Radium.

• Boxing as research. >>Rough Trade.

• A warning. >>I Who Have Never Known Men.

• Your stories are your own. >>Books by James Kelman.

• Deceptively small things. >>Do Dogs Have Chins?

• The Smoker. >>Books by Ottessa Moshfegh.

• The refusal to look away. >>The Trees.

• Joy, full and fearless. >>Some favourites by Joy Cowley.

• Burning age of rage. >>Dread, Beat an’ Blood. >>Books by Linton Kwesi Johnson.

• On the conservatism of contemporary literary fiction.

• Māori wards work. >>Decide together.

• Hurrah for Spoor Books! >>Independent, curious and radical publishing.

• The language of silence.

• Know what you’re looking at.

• See monsters.

• The cult of the wild.

• The mystery of the cat mystery.

• Everything is intertwined. >>Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead.

• Our watching recommendation this week: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. >>Read the book!

• The cat’s Maew.