The Interesting Times #229 (9.9.24)

Issue #229

• A philosophical spy novel for an age of environmental anxiety. >>Creation Lake.

• “I never told my husband I was a novelist.” >>Mina’s Matchbox.

• Language as a living thing. >>Spontaneous Acts a.k.a. Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel.

• Celan reads Japanese.

• The writing life. >>Elkin. >>Levy. >>Darrieussecq.

• The good hacker. >>Plurality.

• Love and trauma. >>The Echoes.

• Butting heads. >>The Fight for Freshwater.

• Ta rē Moriori revival. >>Ten Nosey Weka.

• Why A.I. isn’t going to make art. >>Stories of Your Life and Others.

• “I never had the intention to be an author.” >>Books by Jon Fosse.

• The supreme conradictions of Simone Weil. >>Books by or about Simone Weil.

• The long view.

• The power of picture books.

• Humanity’s strangest language.

• The seven kinds of friendship you find in literature.

• No one’s going to fund two old men. >>The Street of Crocodiles and the Sanatorium under the Hourglass.

• A word about a word addressed to a word.

• Samuel Beckett’s objection to Franz Kafka.

• The universal board.

• Shock without awe.

• Our film recommendation this week: Beyond the Hills.

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