Issue #148

• Strenuous acts of attention. >>The Longcut. 
• The archival abyss. >>Space Invaders. 
• Overlooked no more. >>Books by Tove Ditlevsen. 
• Clarity is not the protocol of literature. >>Tomb of Sand. 
• "Even if a woman sat at a loom, it did not mean she must weave a cosmogony or clothes to cover the emptiness underneath.” >>Abécédaire.
• A language of nowhere. >>Invasion of the Spirit People. 
• Your deepest insecurities. >>Acting Class. 
• What Annie Ernaux owes to memory. >>Books by Ernaux. 
• The tempo of life. >>'A Living Autobiography'. 
• Kafka's diaries, 1911. >>The diaries. 
• 1000 manuscripts. 
• Sounding the Sumburgh foghorn. >>The Foghorn's Lament. 
• Texts in The Rings of Saturn. >>The Rings of Saturn. 
• Transliteration vs translation in te reo Māori.
• Read your way through Tokyo. 
• All that women hold. >>Women Holding Things. 
• Only style survives. 
• The intersections of poetry and medicine. 
• "It’s probably the end of the world, but it might also be the beginning of a new one."
• Autochromes from the Te Papa collection. 
• Our film recommendation this week: True Things. 
• Frozen Charlottes. 

 

Brought to you by VOLUME — your independent on-line bookshop

Support The Interesting Times by buying the interesting books!

(If you are no longer interested in these Times, just let us know.)