The Interesting Times #289 (20.8.26)

Issue #289

• A creature, not a tool. >>kluge.

• Bring me the head of Sam Altman. >>kluge.

• Exile. >>Is Beauty Good.

• Poets hand translation over to ghosts. >>Terrier, Worrier. >>Actions and Travels. >>Pasture and Flock.

• Difficult feelings. >>A Guide to Rocks. >>All the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. >>Get your copies!

• The links between personal trauma, family dysfunction, and political violence. >>Your Life Without Me.

• T.S. Eliot was afraid of cows. >>Vanishing Point.

• A shadow that walked behind him. >>Outsider Everywhere.

• Hardly speaking. >>Outsider Everywhere.

• In the archives. >>Said the Dead.

• The Bund is a model. >>Here Where We Live Is Our Country.

• The Jerusalem of Lithuania. >>Here Where We Live Is Our Country.

• A Jewish history of anti-Zionism. >>Here Where We Live Is Our Country.

• The tyranny of family. >>The Anniversary.

• Learning to see. >>Cataract.

• Raising the portcullis. >>Cataract.

• An expert’s guide to cataract surgery. >>Cataract.

• What makes an artist? >>Picasso the Foreigner.

• The last laugh. >>Artists, Siblings, Visionaries.

• A truly kick-arse spaceship. >>Nova.

• Poetry and the turning world: Money.

• The rise and fall of the English sentence.

• How to be a poet.

• On the reading crisis.

• Sharpen your pencil / Whakakoi i tō penerakau.

• Our film recommendation this week: Cries and Whispers.

• Release notes: Woman (TM), version 51.0.