Issue #63

• Life? or Theatre? >>The book.
• The International Booker Prize short list is announced. >>Your copies. 
• Truth strangled from ego. >>The Poetics of Work. 
• Interview with Samanta Schweblin. >>Little Eyes. 
• “Must Camille’s eyes remind us of something? Could they not just remind us of her and her eyes alone?”
• The art of book covers, 1820—1914. 
• “Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined.”
• "The world is very overwhelming and other people are very overwhelming." 
• On reading Russian literature in translation. 
• Coleridge's theory of ideas. 
• Catastrophe.

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Issue #62

• Sheila Heti and Rachel Cusk on why memoir is a dead end. >>Sheila Heti. >>Rachel Cusk. 
• The B-side of war. >>The Things We've Seen. 
• Artificial intelligence reveals the limits of our own. >>Klara and the Sun. 
• A place of possibility or a place of oppression? >>Feminist City. 
• A mystery to itself. >>Livewired. >>The Idea of the Brain. >>The Future of Brain Repair. 
• Eight ways of looking at Haruki Murakami. >>First Person Singular. 
• Samanta Schweblin and Valeria Luiselli share a bench. >>Schweblin. >>Luiselli.
• On starting an indie press and a family at the same time. 
• Girl stunt reporters. 
• Free digital versions of otherwise unavailable architecture books. 
• More photographs than you want.
• Cooking with Herman Melville. 

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Issue #61

• Reading Natalia Ginzburg. >>Read Natalia Ginzburg.
• Noémi Lefebvre interviews herself. >>Find out more about Poetics of Work. >>Read Thomas's review. 
• Thomas Bernhard's "fiction of the meaningless." >>Read Thomas's reviews. 
• An unexpected consequence of writing a memoir. >>In the Time of the Manaroans. 

• "I don't really know where a book comes from." >>Books from an unknown place. 

• Maitai stories from Maurice Gee. 
• "A unique bond between author and reader." >>Wild Swims. 
• Play TELEPHONE. 
• The imposition of meaning. 
  
• "Every author has his or her own particular difficulties."

• Maaza Mengiste launches photography archive of the 1935 Italo-Ethiopian War. >>The Shadow King. 
• The story of Stalker. >>Roadside Picnic. 

• "There is such a thing as overcaptialising the A in artist."
• Pantone guide (1692). 

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Issue #60

• A scene is only as good as you make it. >>Dwelling in the Margins.

• A novel about misogyny that was almost lost to it.  >>Divorcing. 
• The visible translator. 
• The Ockhams Poetry Sampler. >>Read the short-listed books. 
• The Valley and the Stream. >>How many Ls in Tranquilllity? 
• "Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."
• The indeterminacy of the human. 
• How women invented book clubs. 
• "I could express myself better by writing than by speaking. "
• On the similarity of literary translations and crossword puzzles. 
  
• Coffee House Press, anyone? 
• Witness Crime and Punishment. 
• Interpretations of Spinoza in early Russian Marxism. 
• The Kalevala. >>One for the shelf.  
• Choose a new desk from this Easter sale catalogue.

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