Issue #81

When Nobody Was Looking. >>Justice and Race. 

Home Truths. >>Read our reviews of Second Place. 

Leaking bodies. >>Adorable. 

The personal at arm's length. >>The Limits of My Language. 

Propped up by structures that could collapse at any moment. >>Sevastopol. 

The stream of consciousness is more like a whirlpool. >>Loop. 

Pen portraits. >>Read Thomas's review of The Death of Francis Bacon.

Something going on in Spanish. >>The best!

“It is a mistake to view Arabic novels as ethnographic documents of their authors’ countries." >>Celestial Bodies. 

The responsibilities and pleasures of translation. 

Translation as visiting the past. 

Tai Moana, Tai Tangata. 

New York's legendary literary hang-outs. 

The future was better protected than the past. 

Can you solve it? 

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Issue #80 (Bumper lock-down issue)

• Head and shoulders. >>He Ringatoi o ngā Tūpuna.
• Short chapters of a woman who couldn't go placidly. >>What I Learned at Art School.
• A journey through loneliness. >>Seek You. 
• Mogera Wogura. >>Books by Hiromi Kawakami. 
• Starling in Winter. 
• The sympathetic vitaliser. >>Remote Sympathy. 
• No dull moments in lock-down. 
• A furious womanifesto. >>Things Are Against Us. 
• Female ghosts and spirits from Japanese folklore, ranked. >>Where the Wild Ladies Are. 
• The meticulous one. >>Books by Ingeborg Bachmann. 

• "I see no distinction between being a writer and being a translator."

• The invisible city beneath Paris. 
• The bookseller as humanist. >>Vespasiano da Bisticci. 
• France's regional languages. 
• The most popular children's books from every country in the world. 
• Slave language revival. 
• Marx on the beach. 
• Hand gestures last longer. 
• Beckett's radical finitude. 

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Issue #79

• "There must be more to life than who to blame." >>Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life. 
• "Facts are almost completely devoid of meaning." >>When We Cease to Understand the World. 
• Born to dig. >>Underground. 
• The heart of the trouble. >>My Phantoms. 

• "The politics of loneliness are more complex than merely liberating." >>The Coming Bad Days. 
• 'The Island.' >>Books by and about Tove Jansson. 

• Close to nothing. >>Books by Fleur Jaeggy. 
• Faces in a Face. >>Nervous System. 
• Literate mushrooms. >>Entangled Life. 
• From Memory Rose into Threshold Speech. >>Books by Paul Celan. 
• Edward Gorey's strange ambitions. >>Born to Be Posthumous. 
• A chart you didn't know you needed. 

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Issue #78

• The Coming Bad Days. >>Read the book. 
• Eternal Return. >>Voices in the Evening. 
• Chronology of a body. >>To Write As If Already Dead. 
• The unmitigated joy of never again having to do athletics day. >>Lonely Asian Woman. 
• I haven't been I. >>The Book of Disquiet. 
• A compendium of severance. >>Divorcing. 
• Choosing and not choosing. 
• Catchwords. 
• Speeding away from Zion. >>An account of a minor and ultimately even negligible episode in the history of a very famous family. 
• Two Landfall editors for the price of one. 
• Lost and unfounded. >>The Lost Writings. 
• Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, 2:1. 

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Issue #77

• "As thrilling as it is evasive." >>Find out more about our Book of the Week. 
• "The more exactly I put it down the more completely I get rid of it." 
• Freighted with dissatisfaction. >>Read Thomas's reviews of several books by Thomas Bernhard. 
• Les Cahiers d'Esther. >>Esther's Notebooks. 
• Confusion of Tongues. >>Hurricane Season. 
• Storytellers who listen. >>Azadi. 
• Are we depressed yet? 
• Maaza Mengiste. >>The Shadow King. 
• Never again what? >>If This is a Man. 
• 1954's 1984. 
• A literature on the brink of dawn. >>Thomas reviews The Book of Disquiet. 
• My home is where I am. 
• No mind's eye. 
• Numbers in the right order. 
• Proust erased. >>Les mots perdus. 

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