The Interesting Times #266 (13.10.25) — Bumper Spring edition!

Issue #266

• The Booker shortlist films! >>What the judges think.

• Desire and possession. >>Zombie Proust.

• Unhiding. >>Hiding Places.

• Motherhood vs. creativity. >>Hiding Places.

• To Chris, with love. >>Not Given Lightly.

• Breaking rules. >>Finding out more.

• Europe’s perilous reality. >>A dark thread.

• I don’t need anything from here.

• Different tchipangă. >>Ten Nosey Weka.

• A huge shift. >>Edges of Empire.

• The mystery of Medea. >>No Friend to this House.

• Literature is a form of resistance. >>Indignity. >>The Are Rivers in the Sky.

• All food is fusion. >>FUSÃO.

• She disappeared for twenty years. >>Sonia & Sunny.

• How to keep a diary. >>Diary of an Ending.

• What could be lost? >>Sight Lines.

• What do the best-designed books look like? >>Sight Lines.

• Similarities. >>Matapēhi.

• The pinch of pages. >>Slowing the Sun.

• Land, people, pen.

• Nuanced. >>Pastoral Care.

• Two tankas. >>Books by Richard von Sturmer.

• Prototypes. >>A choice of prototype.

• The germ and the text. >>Perfection.

• Democracy descends. >>38 Londres Street.

• They didn’t even read the book.

• Not reading ahead.

• The smallest units of language. >>Books by Lydia Davis.

• The anatomy of a hair. >>Bezoar.

• Four easy steps. >>Start with a Teapot.

• To save a library.

• Who can write a novel today?

• Dread as excitement.

• Speed reading is bullshit.

• Our film recommendation this week: Universal Language.

• Collective nouns for librarians.