Issue #85

• Losing control of the hours. >>The Water Statues. 
  
• On keeping a notes app. >>Lonely Asian Woman. 
• About the pink jumpsuit. >>Short fictions, tall truths. 
• Bad genre. >>Books by Annie Ernaux. 
• Writing Lessons from War and Peace. >>85 Days. 
• "Emma, Rodrigo, and I followed in the car." >>The Wrong End of the Telescope. 
• Melani Anae on The Platform. >>Books about the Polynesian Panthers. 
• Elena Ferrante 'talks' with Marina Abramovic. 
• An intimate approach to writing narrative structure. 
• The mistake no dialogue writer should ever make. 
• The canonisation of Derek Jarman. >>Modern Nature. 
• Don't call it writers' block. 
• Author as lepidopterist. 
• A brief history of books on wheels. 
• Seven things you learn as a bookseller. 
• First we whistled. 
• The art of the lock-down book recommendation. 
• Soviet visuals. >>Soviet Visuals!

• No laughing matter. 

 

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Issue #84

• Winning the game you didn't even want to play. >>Beautiful World, Where Are You. 
• Urban landscapes and scattered selves. >>Books by Annie Ernaux. 
• Civilisation vs. culture. >>The Magician. 
• Unsettling powers. >>Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch. 
• A growing sense of purpose. >>The Well-Gardened Mind. 
• 40 years of Flying Nun. >>Hellzapoppin!
• Godot in the Delta Era. >>Waiting for normal. >>Endgame in isolation. 
• Autotheory and autofiction. 
• The dawn of machine writing.
• The feminist vision of Friedrich Engels. 
• Middlemarch: a novel of contagion. >>Isolate and read. 
• Where to start with Krasznahorkai. >>Maybe here. 
• Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. 
• On portals, poems, and collage. 
• What sort of literary ghost are you? 
  
  

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Issue #83

• Eccentric Orbits. >>Sentient dust. >>An ancient diamond. 
  
• The beauty of The House. >>Piranesi. 
• A living autobiography. >>Real Estate. 

• Real life. >>Night As It Falls. 
• "I still don't know where a book comes from." >>They came from somewhere!
• "We need to rethink the category of woman." >>Gender Trouble. 
• No-one likes blue. >>Ill Feelings. 
• A language of circles. 
• Tove Jansson illustrates The Hobbit. 
• Find your address on Pangaea. 
• Racism in the Dewey Decimal System? 
• Water is meaningless without ships. 
• Svetlana Alexievich on Belarus. >>Books by the laureate.
• Join the Maori Language Moment (12 PM, Tuesday 14th).

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Issue #82

• A woman who wouldn't go placidly. >>Things I Learned at Art School. 
• The long swoon of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. >>Two-Way Mirror. 
• Dread, collapse, relief. >>Books by Brian Dillon. 
• A very particular risk. 
• A manifesto for uncertain times. >>Poetics of Work. 
• Once Dostoyevsky's stenographer. >>Summer in Baden-Baden. >>The Gambler Wife. 
• Dreams in lock-down. 
• One French city. >>One Lydia Davis. 
• Meet Maria Turtschaninoff. >>'Visit 'The Red Abbey'. 
• Modes of violence. >>Hurricane Season. 
• Forgetting my first language. 
• Authors who started out as booksellers (no mention of the booksellers who started out as authors). 
• Walking with Simone de Beauvoir. 
• Murakami stories made into short films. >>Murakami books. 
• Selling books that aren't meant to be saleable. 
• "I sometimes wonder why I translate."
• Water is meaningless without ships. 
• Ten Chinese bookshops. 
• Recipes from The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook. 

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