Issue #21

• More empathy, less fear!

• About being yourself. 

• Sally Rooney at the clinic. 

• Close to nothing. >>Some books by Jaeggy. 

• What is Translationese? 

• Wandering through literary Lisbon in search of Pessoa's disquiet. >>The Book of Disquiet.  

• The horror of humanity. >>Books by Han Kang. 

• Poetic justice!

• He, She, One, They, Ho, Hus, Hum, Ita. >>What's your pronoun? 

• We fight fascists. >>We Fight Fascists. 

• Paul Auster, Jewish poet. 

• Is this the most terrifying book trailer ever made? 

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Issue #20

• An anti-racist reading list for New Zealand. >>Start reading. 

• Robert Walser's and Jean Genet's dreams, solitude and mundane things. >>Moyra Davey's Index Cards. 

• Tom McCarthy on Ulysses and its wake. 

• Ulysses without interruption.

• Everything becomes buffering.

• Why is a W made of two Vs?

• Contradicted and conflicted. 

• Writers rebel.

• A feature on the wonderful Fitzcarraldo Editions. 

• A Spanish opera house re-opens, but only to plants. 

• Construct your own Bayeux Tapestry. 

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Issue #19

• Peter Simpson on studying Colin McCahon. >>Is this the promised land? 

• Rebecca Solnit on the myth of the art monster. 

• Meet C.K. Stead. >>You have a lot to lose.

• "Literature can foster and express our shared humanity." 

• Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo on contextualising history. 

• Love letters from Tove Jansson. 

• A story by Esther Kinsky. 

• Conjuring the smelly giant. >>The book!

• How women are changing the face of publishing in Africa. 

• Some American poets. 

• A Bloomsday quiz!

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Issue #18

• "Writing is a kind of listening." >>Fosse on the shelf. 
• A story from Diane Williams. >>Collected stories. 
• Daisy Hildyard's Kobold.
• Interview with Teju Cole. >>Books.
• Murder is her hobby. >>18 tiny deaths. 
• Meiko Kawakami on the virus in Japan. 
• Refusing to mitigate the pain and isolation. >>Free Day. 
• Lynn Jenner contributes to a record of lock-down around the world.
• Coetzee vs Don Quixote. 
• Think JustSpeak. 
• Patti Smith reads Virginia Woolf and Virginia Woolf speaks for herself. 

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Issue #17

• Anne Serre's house of confinement. 

• The novel that made the novel modern. >>Meet Michael.

• Janet Malcolm — the art of non-fiction. 

• Long Distance (Alejandro Zambra)

• Go Up the Mountain! >>Your Mountain.

• Samuel Beckett, the ultimate realist. 

• A free story from J.K. Rowling (no Harrys here).

• How to read more books in a golden age of content. 

• The 100 most spoken languages. 

• The pandemic seen from the eyes of a puma. 

• Malina as a performance piece >>and as a book.

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