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Issue #160

• Which book to read first? >>The International Booker list. 
• The voice that cannot be controlled. >>Chicanes. 
• Part of the world. >>Whale. 
• At the limits of language. >>Ten Planets. 
• A series of heavens. >>Words by and about K.M. 
• Places don't remember what they are. >>When We Were Birds. 
• Queer magic and queerevolutions. 
• My ugly bathroom. 
• Diseases incidental to literary and sedentary persons. 
• Shelf life. 
• The natural language of the hand. 
• Exit strategies. 
• Our film recommendation this week: Accident. 
• Fantasia in G Minor. 

 

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Issue #159

• Here and nowhere else. >>The Birthday Party. 
• "...I am sure of it." >>Deranged As I Am. 
• A green notebook. >>Why Women Grow, 
• First, pick your acorn. >>The short lists. 
• Sweeping away the dust that piles up. >>Whale. 
• A little bit of getting used to. >>Bordering on Miraculous. 
• A laser beam on her head. >>Books by Mary Gaitskill. 
• An argument for justice. >>The Transgender Issue. 
• Translation anxiety. >>The Storyteller. 
• Chaos bewitched. >>Moby-Dick. 
• In perpetual motion. >>Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. 
• On her radar. >>Harrow. >>The Story of Art (Without Men). 
• A book of waves and ripples. 
• Idlers of the world, unite! >>The Right To Be Lazy. 
• Read your way through Edinburgh. 
• Our film recommendation this week: Shoplifters. 
• Eating his words. >>Entangled Life. 

 

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Issue #158

• A search for women gardeners. >>Why Women Grow. 
• Conscious of everything. >>All Sorts of Lives. 
• The novelist watching us work. >>Eastbound. 
• Five tables in a house. >>Boulder. >>When I Sing, Mountains Dance. 
• Loopholes. >>Keeping the House. 
• Description of a struggle. >>The Diaries of Franz Kafka. 
• First, catch your starling. 
• Like moving through a country. >>In Memory of Memory. 
• I am a publishing assistant. 
• Words from the long white cloud. 
• Down and out in Paris with Rainer Maria Rilke. >>The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. 
• Visuality and literacy. 
• Will we see it coming?
• The law of suggestion. 
• The problem with stative verbs. 
• Then, crochet your halibut. 
• Pinter as Krapp. 
• No worries if not!

 

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Issue #157

• The eye of the beholder. >>Affinities. 
• A real trip. >>Ten Planets. 
• Waking the tūpuna. >>Te Motunui Epa. 
• It never snows in Nevers. >>Owlish. 
• An Emergency reading list. >>Emergency. 
• How Keri Hulme changed the way we read. >>The Bone People. 
• How does the visual operate in cinema, as opposed to literature? >>Happening (the book). >>Happening (the film). 
• Special pleading for an 'I'. >>Your Duck Is My Duck. 
• On loss an storytelling. >>Old Babes in the Wood. 
• What does Alain Badiou mean by 'antiphilosophy'? >>Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy. 
• Writers' round table on Japan. 
• Narratives of magnitude. 
• A Page of Madness. 

 

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Issue #156

• Endless trances. >>Tomb of Sand. 
• "I felt immortal." >>Birnam Wood. 
• Eric Hazan's Paris. >>Paris in Turmoil. 
• Broken Journey. 
• A memoirist who mistrusts her own memories. >>Books by Annie Ernaux. 
• Hurrah for Charco Press! >>We have many Charco Press titles in stock.
• Meeting minds. >>Eve Bites Back. 
• Exploding a Pākehā Myth. >>Privilege in Perpetuity. 
• Responsibility, guilt, participation, complicity. >>In Memory of Memory. 
• A cake full of knives. >>Oldladyvoice. 
• Tantrum. >>Thomas reviews The Weak Spot. 
• The worlds of Italo Calvino. >>The books of Italo Calvino. 
• 20,000 NZ books. 
• How the Victorians created the modern English novel. 
• A questionable business. 
• Things that have died in the pool. 

 

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Issue #155

• Joy Williams does not write for humanity. >>Harrow. 
• Best first books. 
• Uncharted territory. >>Needles and Plastic. 
• Gorey ends. >>The Gashlycrumb Tinies. 
• Isolation, solitude, loneliness, and the writing of long-form fiction. 
• Elizabeth Hardwick's style. >>Read it yourself. 
• Should I ask my question at the literary event? 
• The future of literary criticism.
• Various hellfires. >>I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole. 
• The animated mouth. 
• Significantly undigested. 
• Fight for your right to be lazy. 
• Samuel Beckett, rider. 

 

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Issue #154

• Every player harbours a strong desire. >>Birnam Wood. 
• Bernhard's spawn. >>Panthers and the Museum of Fire. >>The Longcut. >>Saint Sebastian's Abyss. >>The Novelist. 
• Light from the past illuminates our present. >>Space Invaders. >>The Twilight Zone. 
• "They robbed me of my children." >>What Have You Left Behind?
• Painting with words. >>Nights of Plague. 
• A lost interview with Clarice Lispector. >>The books. 
• Splummeshing. >>The Furrows. 
• Polyglot dreams. 
• Read your way through São Paulo. 
• The interview. >>Books by Fiona Farrell. 
• Other iterations. 
• The unique pleasures of reading in public. 
• Turning the page. 
• Our film recommendation this week: Decision to Leave. 
• Go directly to jail. 

 

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Issue #153

• Eating and reading with Katherine Mansfield. >>All Sorts of Lives. 
• A gun but not a toothbrush. >>Desert Soul. 
• Another man's name. >>You Shall Leave Your Land. 
• A mouthpiece for human darkness. >>Our Share of the Night. 
• The particular horrors of actual witch hunts. >>Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch. 
• Wealth taxes work. >>Too Much Money. 
• On translating Memorial, 29 June. >>Memorial 29 June. 
• An elegy to a pluralistic, polyglot India. >>Tomb of Sand. 
• The Bell Jar at 60. >>The Bell Jar. 
• Physics and literature are not mutually exclusive. >>Ulysses. 
• A threat to language diversity? 
• Coming to life. 
• Oslo's future library. 
• Our film recommendation this week: Ascension. 
• The mind-body problem. 

 

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Issue #152

• I was always asking myself what my work was. >>>>The Longcut. 
• A Modernist's Modernist. >>All Sorts of Lives. 
• Very free and indirect. >>All Sorts of Lives. 
• Both the record of a struggle and its ultimate product. >>Fifty Sounds. 
• A premonitory vision. >>Strega. 
• Renters unite!
• The voice of Joyce. 
• Space for misunderstanding. >>The Book of Goose. >>The Unfolding. 
• Boulders have a way of making landscapes both formidable and absurd. >>Boulder. 
• Writing ourselves into existence. >>Sweat and Salt Water. 
• There's more to it than language. 
• The science of life and death. >>Frankenstein. 
• How language misses its mark. >>'The Middle Voice'. 
• Gyb, Mite, Méone, Pangur Bán.
• Little point in exploring happiness, productivity or self-understanding. >>Books by Fleur Jaeggy. 
• The paper planes of New York. 
• Rabbit holes and procrastination. >>The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. 
• Kierkegaard at the fair. 

 

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Issue #151

• The walk as a narrative structure. >>>The Longcut.
• Life, death, and commas. >>A Writer's Diary. 
• How to write a history of the arts of a small nation. >>Culture in a Small Country. 
• Justice for all. >>The Transgender Issue. 
• She already knew everything. >>Sweet Days of Discipline. 
• Hazard a guess. >>Saint Sebastian's Abyss. >>The Longcut.
• Some ancient board-games. 
• Reading to the endgame. >>Slam-dunking the madeleine. 
• A word has its own history. >>Checkout 19. 
• Fight for your right to be lazy!
• As a lute out of tune. >>The Anatomy of Melancholy. 
• The Sea Women of South Korea. >>The Island of Sea Women. 
• Clothes for people who love books. 
• Resurgence. 
• Warnings from Weimar-era films. 
• Recommended viewing: Lockwood & Co. >>Read the books!
• Trophy McTrophface? 

 

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Issue #150

• Is it my fault? >>Still Born. 
• How do we live with each other? >>Ti Amo. 
• Jon Fosse's methods. >>Septology. 
• The language of grief. >>Minor Detail. 
• Waharoa. 
• The finer points. 
• Triggered by an image. >>Tomb of Sand. 
• A century of serious difficulty. 
• Made for each other. >>Always Going Home. 
• What is embodiment? 
• The city and the writer. >>Strangers I Know. 
• The work of her hands. 
• I want to be queen. >>The Drunken Boat.
• Fevers of curiosity. 
• Friends with benefits. >>The Secret History of the Five Eyes. 
• Leaning into marginalia. 
• What lies ahead? 
• Some shorts. 
• Justice.
• Happy New Year!

 

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Issue #149

• Archive fever. >>Spadework for a Palace. 
• Welcome to the new world. >>The Visitors. 
• The urgency of existence. >>I Fear My Pain Interests You. 
• Kafka gone wild. >>What excuse do I have for having written nothing yet today? >>Diaries. 
• A playlist for Margery Kempe. >>Re-Sisters. 
• Before she can write she needs to walk. >>Books by Miriam Toews. 
• How autofiction turns the personal into the political. 
• A huge responsibility and a labour of love. >>Are Friends Electric?
• Literature out of a poisoned legacy. >>The 'Patrick Melrose' novels.
• Souvenir. 
• The nocturnal picaresque. 
• Changing our brains. 
• Allen Ginsberg's self-recording sessions. 
• A day in the life of a literary translator. 
• Superstitions about animals. 
• Translating prose into painting. 
• So, it's the OED update, obvs. 
• It is a typewriter. 
• Our film recommendation this week: Vesper. 
• The book that writes itself. >>Thomas meets the chatbot. >>Hello World!
• Katherine Mansfield misremembered. 

 

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