Issue #59

• The altar of oblivion. >>In Memory of Memory. 
• An "instant classic". >>Your copy of this instant classic. 
• Negative effort. >>Simone Weil. 
• Translators aloud. 
• Listen to the Havana Year Zero playlist. >>Read the book, too. 
• Fleeting narrators, disappearing text. >>Absentees. 

• Roland Barthes on his trapeze. >>The book by Typhaine Samoyault.

• Become a Book Scavenger. >>Read the series. 
• I Remember (a film about Joe Brainard). 
• "People were something for which he had a need, but little tolerance."  >>Read Thomas's reviews of Thomas Bernhard's books. 
• Fame and insecurity. 
• Edward Gorey, Frank O’Hara and Harvard’s gay underground.

• Search for pictures in art museums. 
• Not Brutal (in our window for Nelson Jewellery Week). 

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 Issue #58

• Time is all there is. >>Strange Hotel.
• The Ockhams fiction sampler. >>Read the rest.
• "Art is a tool for thinking." >>Funny Weather. 
• "We are stuck in structures we depend on and want to reject all at once." >>Girls Against God. 
• "Memory itself is a form of violence." >>Books by David Coventry. 
• Translating emergencies. >>Thomas reviews Poetics of Work. 
• The original set of Oblique Strategy cards. 
• Syria's rebel librarians. 
• How the cover was designed for >>Little Scratch.
• Imagining Nora Barnacle's love letters to James Joyce. >>Nora. 
• New Directions University. 
• Virtual bookshop visits. >>Here we are!
• Literary gun devices. 

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 Issue #57

• On literature and mathematics. 
• The real enemy is colonialism. >>The Committed. 
• Oh you darling robot! >>Klara and the Sun. 
• Nina Mingya Powles and ten things she loves. >>Magnolia 木蘭.
• Anne Carson! >>A few books. 
• Against the tide. 
• Shelf life. 
• On literary vs. popular fiction. 
• Outside the text. >>An Event, Perhaps. 
• Your workshop with Lynda Barry. >>Books. 
• The places of poetry. >>The book. 

• In a literary bind. 
• The poet's childhood. 

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 Issue #56

• Bomb under the table. >>Klara and the Sun. 
• "Indifference is a contemplative state." >>Poetics of Work. 
• Hermione Lee on Tom Stoppard. >>Read the rest of the book. 

• Was Duras directing her translators? >>Me, And other writings. 
• Embracing freaky futures. >>Dwelling in the Margins. 
• While I was working. >>An Inventory of Losses. 
• A melancholy Dane (with scissors). 
• What is the language of pain? >>Read Anne Boyer. 
• A miner is approached. 
• An interview with Elizabeth Hardwick. >>Recommended reading. 
• Why Melville House? 
• Busy fingers. 

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 Issue #55

• "Shorter than my other short books." >>The Death of Francis Bacon. 
• An old woman dares you to ignore her. >>Bina. 
• Contesting the limelight. >>Ngā Kete Mātauranga.

• Samuel Beckett's mute interview (1969). 
• The fight in us. >>The Adventures of China Iron.
• On the automatic translation of automatic writing. >>The Magnetic Fields. 
• Your score will be higher than you expect. 
• "Our great post-punk novelist." >>The Barker. 
• "I began the day..." >>Calamities reviewed. 
• 100 books. 
• Every slightest pebble. >>The poems of Anna Akhmatova. 

• Not exactly missing or not missing Lisbon. 
• 3,900 pages of Paul Klee’s notebooks.
• Discover a new city through books. 

• It's a competition, apparently. 

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