The Interesting Times #227 (26.8.24)

Issue #227

• A kind of Arctic madness. >>A Woman in the Polar Night.

• What I write about when I write about mermaids. >>The Mermaid Chronicles.

• Luminous attention. >>Enlightenment.

• Gloves on! >>Wrong Norma.

• A crush on a Victorian. >>The Ministry of Time.

• Nocturnal tonguejests. >>Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel.

• You are what you write. >>No Judgement.

• The critic in the internet age. >>No Judgement.

• Kafka himself would have loved them. >>A Cage Went in Search of a Bird.

• Lurching towards constitutional impropriety. >>A Survival Guide.

• Tales of arboreal obsession. >>The Tree Collectors.

• The power of quitting. >>Quit Everything.

• How to design our topography? >>Philosophy of the Home.

• Together with Lorenza Mazzetti. >>The Sky Is Falling.

• Starling.

• Spooky sexy. >>Mrs S.

• Siding with joy. >>Books by Anne Serre.

• Only fifty experts.

• How to become a literary powerhouse.

• Abeceda.

• How to catch a thief.

• Waning days.

• The evolution of the London accent.

• Dominos.

• Our film recommendation this week: Dance First.

• Pooh or Proust?

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