The Interesting Times #207 (8.4.24)

Issue #207 (Bumper Autumn Issue)

• A state of disconnection. >>Turncoat.

• Opening portals with our hands. >>Te Rā.

• Spying, lying, and Eros. >>Kairos.

• A private story of a big love and its decay, but also the dissolution of a whole political system. >>Kairos.

• Travels in knowledge. >>The Beautiful Afternoon.

• How and why writing gets under your skin. >>Strega.

• Lost in the supermarket. >>Bird Life.

• Who’s afraid of the Large Language Model?

• A sense of agency. >>No Judgement.

• Making of a poem. >>In the Company of Bees. >>The Ceaseless Murmuring of Innumerable Bees.

• Phantoms of patriarchy.

• A courageous book. >>The Unsettled.

• Gurle talk. >>Mother Tongue.

• Dogmatism in reverse. >>Critique of Everyday Life.

• Double-time seabird. >>The Islander.

• Speaking up for Palestine is hard, but it has never been more necessary. >>Erasing Palestine.

• Borges and the blind.

• Falling into the web of superstition. >>Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare.

• “It was not the case that I could not write. “

• I am one, only one, only one.

• The beautiful mind-bending of Stanislaw Lem. >>Solaris.

• A reluctant subject.

• The Egg and the Chicken.

• Lubunca is the language of activism.

• How to make a poetry comic.

• The small press world is about to fall apart. >>What the closure of SPD means for readers.

• Books are a good, cheap weapon to fight against extremism.

• Once upon a time.

• It’s unfair to put a thinking person on a cruise ship.

• Gadzooks!

• Rejection.

• Our film recommendation this week: Dreaming Walls.

• The alphabet.

• The poor little encyclopedia girl.

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