The Interesting Times #264 (23.9.25)

Issue #264

• A river underneath her life. >>Alphabetical Diaries.

• Every scene and itch. >>The City Changes Its Face.

• Wanting to act. >>The City Changes Its Face.

• What she wanted she got. >>Creation Lake.

• Tearing up the rule book. >>Grief Is the Thing with Feathers.

• Becoming strangers. >>One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This.

• Infinite wibble. >>What Art Does.

• Not messages but stories. >>To the Moon.

• There in Telemark. >>The Ice Palace. >>The Birds.

• The long and the short of Israel and Palestine. >>Books by Ilan Pappe. >>Books by Avi Shlaim.

• How to read like a Booker Prize judge.

• The paradoxes at the limits of language.

• Calvino and the machines. >>Books by Italo Calvino.

• The threat of arrest. >>Books by Sally Rooney.

• Seeing the world. >>Where to?

• Anxious letters. >>Letters to Felice.

• The Unconscious is like a Large Language Model.

• A mobile library and a mobile librarian.

• Our film recommendation this week: Bill Direen, A Memory of Others. >>Stream Light.

• An incredible journey.