Issue #72

• In a sleepy, blue, sort of phosphorescent way. >>Sevastopol. 
• Reading in bed with the feminists. >>Get In Bed. 
• The covering cherub. >>The book!
• Designing Discomfort. >>The Discomfort of Evening. 
• Illustrating for the imagination. >>Some books illustrated by Sarah Wilkins. 
• Ali Smith wins the Orwell Prize. >>Summer. 
• I came with a sword. >>Weil on the shelf. 
• Meet Archipelago Press. 
• Do you read Lybic?
• Learning to say 'cat'. 
• Diderot's Letter on the Blind. 
• When a bookshop closes, an argument ends. 
• Print culture of the 1960s. 
• Sharp editing. 

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Issue #71

• In an intergalactic cocoon. >>Find out more about The Employees. 
• Isn't that so. >>The Communicating Vessels. 
• Murnane on Inland. >>Thomas on Inland. 

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• The bibliography is the medium. >>Debths. 
• How to be creative. 
• When the present is haunted by the past. >>Minor Detail. 
• Pain on the page. 
• Literary carbohydrates. 

• Eric Hobsbawm's Marxism. >>Eric Hobsbawm's books. 
• His master's voice.
• "I will try to talk as if they're not there."
• Virtual crawl. 
• Harris Tweed sung into existence. 

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Issue #70

• Two poems by Tayi Tibble. >>Rangikura. 
• Autofiction's first boom. >>An I-Novel. 
• "Literature has the power to combine elements that ordinary life keeps apart." >>The Fool. 
• Rachel Kushner watches films. >>And writes books. 
• Embodying a female text. >>A Ghost in the Throat. 
• The Footprints of Bashō, Hearn, and Borges on the Roads of Japan. 
• Meditations on Celan. >>Read yourself. 
• Private lives, public faces. >>Arendt. 
• Inside the coffin is the graveyard. >>Some books written at that desk. 

• Sure, plot is good, but have you ever tried talking about story shape? 

• What's in a bookshop? 
• Richard Nunns (1945—2021). 
• The lion who shot back. >>Lafcadio. 

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Issue #69

• Meet Airini Beautrais. >>Bug Week. 
• The Gospel of C.K. Stead. >>What You Made of It. >>The Mirror Book. 
• Bullying and Nietzsche. >>Heaven. 
• Cultural revolt in Auckland. >>Time to Make a Song and Dance. 
• History is the throbbing pulse. >>A Ghost in the Throat. 
• More babies, better mood, worse smell. >>Adorable. 
• A game of cut-outs. >>Notes from Childhood. 
• A product of cell-level grief. >>Temporary. 
• “Making cartoons is a way of avoiding feelings of pointlessness and despair and still not being too upbeat.” >>A few books by Roz Chast. 
• The horror is in you. >>Thomas reviews Malina.  
• The woman who fell in love with an island. >>Books by or about Tove Jansson. 
• Ruth Asawa and her sculptures. >>Your book. 
• Enjoy your security. >>'The Burrow'. 
• Stella on air. >>The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again. 
• Thomas goes to the gallery. 
• Looking for truth with a pin. 

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