The Interesting Times #281 (12.5.26)

Issue #281

• At the round table. >>Read the books.

• Stupefying and overwhelming. >>Transcription.

• The philosophical and the intimate. >>Transcription.

• The duck-rabbit of fiction. >>Transcription.

• A forest of tripwires. >>The Valley.

• A can of worms. >>Angst.

• A love letter to language. >>Light and Thread.

• They are the last. >>Why Look at Animals?

• When the present is haunted by the past. >>Minor Detail.

• Windows. >>Hell of Solitude.

• Literary beef. >>Hell of Solitude.

• Hell of solitude. >>Hell of Solitude.

• The stories of others. >>Absence.

• There’s no such thing as boredom, only noticing. >>Brawler.

• Sergei N.’s brief gestalt. >>Happiness.

• Read in a certain way. >>Happiness.

• Three intense calamities. >>Night, Ma.

• A year of family crises. >>Night, Ma.

• Translations in an emergency. >>Into the Weeds.

• Not always an easy thing to do. >>What to Wear.

• The architecture of a lie. >>London Falling.

• On the banks of the River Thames. >>London Falling.

• The language of silence.

• The reality of the present. >>Books by Krasznahorkai.

• If a Bridgerton and a Jane Austen character met. >>The Encyclopedia of Ugly Fashion.

• Writ large.

• Means and ends.

• What does it mean to be a UNESCO City of Literature?

• Our film recommendation this wek: All I Had Was Nothingness.

• It isn’t hoarding.

• See you later, alligator.