The Interesting Times #293 (27.10.26)

Issue #293

• No more pākehā memoirs. >>Pākehā Metaphysics.

• The narrator’s former body. >>kluge.

• She’s a liar. >>Attention-Seeking Behaviour.

• The future is the past is the future. >>Dooneen.

• Something he would understand. >>U.X.O.

• Ozempic and the ‘Starving Bride’. >>The Starving Bride.

• Always performing. >>The Starving Bride.

• Narrative amid trauma. >>Dog Days.

• A manufactured movement. >>Dirty Work.

• Illegal foundations. >>Sovereignty: The case for constituional transformation.

• The loss they cannot repair. >>Anti-Zionism: A Jewish history.

• The deep roots of a contemporary movement. >>Anti-Zionism: A Jewish history.

• Let us fall for whatever we want to. >>I Liked Rex.

• Exploring a taboo subject. >>And How Are Things With You.

• Honesty of neglect? >> That Was Not My Intention.

• The crying cat. >>The Houseguest.

• Acceptance. >>Audition.

• Ecstatic minimalism. >>Books by Anne Carson.

• Sudden breadknife frenzy. >>Black Bag.

• Completely defining. >>The Rouse.

• Our mission is clear. >>End Times Fascism.

• A moral tear in the universe. >>End Times Fascism.

• A.I. is a fascist idea. >>End Times Fascism.

• Relishing its own existence. >>Lucky Creatures.

• The confessions of Rachel Cusk. >>Life of M.

• Being left behind. >>Sail Away Land.

• Literature as a linguitsic event. >>Ply.

• Thinking isn’t only in the brain.

• Wondering at philosophy with Kafka’s dog. >>The Investigations of a Dog. >>How to Research Like a Dog.

• Our film recommendation this week: The Edge of the World.