The Interesting Times #276 (26.3.26)

Issue #276

• A deep field of focus. >>Animal Stories.

• Beautiful minimalism. >>they.

• Hating the past tense. >>they.

• A fable about totalitarianism written in brain-fluid. >>Schattenfroh.

• Devil and invention. >>Schattenfroh.

• Radical optimism. >>Helm.

• Between compassion and hatred. >>Brawler.

• A growing fondness for confrontation. >>Cannon.

• The subtlety of the birds. >>Cannon.

• Threads of empire. >>Patchwork.

• The fate of the artist under totalitarianism. >>The Director.

• Complicity. >>The Director.

• Which of our thoughts are interesting? >>Any Person Is the Only Self.

• An environment for thinking. >>Any Person Is the Only Self.

• The brilliant and necessary southern aunt of New Zealand Letters. >>A Writer’s Life. >>This Moment, Every Moment.

• The Ockhams poetry sampler. >>Get your copies.

• Writing amid catastrophe.

• From Gaza to Iran.

• Five films for freedom.

• Our film recommendation this week: Sentimental Value.

• Brain rot or Finnegans Wake?