Issue #89

• The slaughterhouse at the heart of culture. >>Great Works. 
• The safe zone. >>Small Bodies of Water. 
• What's art got to do with it? >>Things I Learned at Art School. 
• Inspirations revealed. >>The six. 
• Learning to write from life. >>How to Start Writing (and When to Stop). 
• The palimpsest sensation. >>Exteriors. 
• Fleur Jaeggy thinks nothing of herself. >>Thomas reviews several of her books. 
• The lies of history / How nature fights back. >>The Nutmeg's Curse. 
• Marguerite Duras, internet essayist? >>Me. 
• What has and hasn't changed. >>The Fortune Men. 
• Ingeborg Bachmann on the first person narrator. >>Malina. 
• Deborah Levy meets Magda Cârneci. >>Real Estate. >>FEM. 
• Retelling the hare. >>The Hare with the Amber Eyes. 
• Zombie fodder. 
• On the historical stigmatisation and persistent vilification of epilepsy in literature. 
• Edible, suspect, and poisonous. 
• This is the house that Edward owned. >>Books by Edward Gorey. 

 

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Issue #88

• Ensnaring Sebald. >>Speak, Silence. 
• Uncomfortable questions about fiction. >>When We Cease to Understand the World. 
• "She reminds me of somebody. But who?" >>The Woman in the Purple Skirt. 

• Reconnect with Richard Powers. >>Bewilderment. 

• On finding stories everywhere. >> Me. 

• A single design for a trilogy. >>Three Novels by Yuri Herrera. 
• "Literature is the sudden disintegration of the verbal fabric of everyday life." Discuss. 
• As natural as walking. >>Walking the Invisible. 
• Selling the Holocaust. >>Plunder. 

• “I feel suspicious about writers who claim to tell the whole truth about themselves, about life, or about the world." >>Calvino. 
• Scenes from the life of Roz Chast. >>You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time. 
• Commie comics.
• Where poetry still matters. 

 

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Issue #87

• Uplifted from the mind of a dreamer. >>The Lobster's Tale. 
• It won't make the vase whole again. >>Books by Tove Ditlevsen. 
• How a woman becomes a piece of furniture. >>Empty Wardrobes. 
• The books that raised the booksellers. 
• A riot in Nelson. >>Interesting!
• Perec's cat. >>Gentle and Fierce. 
• Jewish lives ransacked for fiction? >> Speak, Silence. 
• Oh whistle and. >>English Magic. 
• Take a look inside the suitcase. >>Inside the Suitcase.
• Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the 2021 Nobel prize in literature. >>Laureate's books. 
• Refreshing ways to talk about buildings. >>Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances. 

• "I read the book and I knew what I wanted to do." >>A few of the many books by Adam Phillips. 
• Babar: model or integration or crumbling myth? >>Elephant diaspora. 

• Selling the Holocaust. >>Plunder. 
• The persistence of litmags. 
• The Proustian grail. 
• A late-phase reflection on peak oil. 

 

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Issue #86

• Mourning exercise. >>The Water Statues. 
• "We have to do it together." >>Imagining Decolonisation. 
• On Tove Ditlevsen and the tradition of women writing autofiction. >>'The Copenhagen Trilogy'. 
  
• OTK. >>Shelf Love. 
• The net and the fence. >>Under the Dome. 
• How Michel Foucault got neoliberalism so wrong. >>The Last Man Takes LSD. 
• An experiment in limits. >>Long Players. 
• Speculative evolution. >>On the Origin of Species. 

• How a woman becomes a piece of furniture. >>Empty Wardrobes. 
• Smith in love. >>1984: The graphic novel. 
• 36 metaphors for translation. 

• Fred Moten's radical critique of the present. 

• The lost world of the London coffeehouse. 

• Anna H. loses her ability to read. 
• Russia's most mysterious modern writer. >>Books by Victor Pelevin. 
• Uncanny. 
• Strange sentences. 
• The very first Bechdel Test. 
• What pedestrians look like in Europe. 

 

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