Issue #19

• Peter Simpson on studying Colin McCahon. >>Is this the promised land? 

• Rebecca Solnit on the myth of the art monster. 

• Meet C.K. Stead. >>You have a lot to lose.

• "Literature can foster and express our shared humanity." 

• Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo on contextualising history. 

• Love letters from Tove Jansson. 

• A story by Esther Kinsky. 

• Conjuring the smelly giant. >>The book!

• How women are changing the face of publishing in Africa. 

• Some American poets. 

• A Bloomsday quiz!

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Issue #18

• "Writing is a kind of listening." >>Fosse on the shelf. 
• A story from Diane Williams. >>Collected stories. 
• Daisy Hildyard's Kobold.
• Interview with Teju Cole. >>Books.
• Murder is her hobby. >>18 tiny deaths. 
• Meiko Kawakami on the virus in Japan. 
• Refusing to mitigate the pain and isolation. >>Free Day. 
• Lynn Jenner contributes to a record of lock-down around the world.
• Coetzee vs Don Quixote. 
• Think JustSpeak. 
• Patti Smith reads Virginia Woolf and Virginia Woolf speaks for herself. 

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Issue #17

• Anne Serre's house of confinement. 

• The novel that made the novel modern. >>Meet Michael.

• Janet Malcolm — the art of non-fiction. 

• Long Distance (Alejandro Zambra)

• Go Up the Mountain! >>Your Mountain.

• Samuel Beckett, the ultimate realist. 

• A free story from J.K. Rowling (no Harrys here).

• How to read more books in a golden age of content. 

• The 100 most spoken languages. 

• The pandemic seen from the eyes of a puma. 

• Malina as a performance piece >>and as a book.

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Issue #16

• Olivia Laing on art in an emergency. >>Funny Weather. 
• Brian Dillon on Essayism. >>Thomas on Dillon on Essayism. 
• What sort of man? >>Well?
• Sanmao's footsteps. >>Stories of the Sahara. 
• Hannah Arendt remembers W.H. Auden. 
• Anne Kennedy vs. Beethoven. >>Moth Hour. 
• Feminise your canon with Ingeborg Bachmann. >>Books!
• Sharpen your pencils for the NZPS International Poetry Competition.
• The creative communities that (apparently) changed literature for ever. 
• Write 500 words per day and publish 50 books (or write only 10 words per day and publish one book). 

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Issue #15

• Growing up Wāhine Māori.
• Georges Perec remembers. 
• Sheila Heti vs. Sally Rooney. >>Heti. >>Rooney. 
• Join the Borderless Book Club.
• Gregory O'Brien dispatches from the pandemic. >>Other dispatches. 
• Bythell in his bubble. >>Books by Shaun Bythell.  
• Why do some writers burn their work?
• An interview with Eleanor Catton. 
• Endgame: losing to win. 
• The map is not the territory. 
• Sharpen your pencil and look sharp. 
• Instapoetry: "The references are hyper-contemporary, but have the patina of datedness."
• The reading habits of some famous authors are revealed. 
• Sebald's small silences. 
• The last book case you will ever need. 

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Issue #14

• Tonight's Ockhams included some of the most hilarious live footage of winning authors that you will ever see. >>The winning books!
• How to read a poem by Jane Arthur.
• Elizabeth Knox in the Book Bubble. >>The Absolute Book. 
• On the First Night of Lock-Down (a poem by Cliff Fell)
• Warning: Contains poultry. >>Deb Olin Unferth's Barn 8 has just arrived. 
• Strange libraries. 
• The bread is over.
• Generate your very own Penguin Classics covers!

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Issue #13

• If you love books, buy local. 

• On Kierkegaard, authenticity, and how a person should be.

• Go to the AFW this Sunday in your dressing gown. 

• A Delicate Sight. 

• Portuguese authors collaborate on serial lock-down novel.

• Anne Boyer, The Miserablist. 

• Around My Room and Back Again: a quarantine song by Christine Wunnicke

• "I wanted a page to become a kind of stage, and I wanted a day to become more than a day." —  Kathryn Scanlan and Kate Zambreno in conversation.

• The 19th century character trope generator.

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Issue #12

• Attend the Auckland Writers Festival Winter Series without leaving your sofa. >>Let us know the books you want to read.

• What do booksellers read for comfort? 

• What plague literature tells us about our future. 

• Will each episode of The Luminaries TV series be half the length of the previous episode? The trailer gives no clues. 

• Some virtual library tours. 

• Maira Kalman is Alice B. Toklas. 

• The British Museum has put everything on-line (so that the originals can be sent back...)

• Do you chew your bookmarks?

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Issue #11

• Rivka Galchen on Clarice Lispector. >>Lispector on (y)our shelf. 

• BookBound 2020!

• More readings have been added to the Ockhams Out Loud channel.

• Free Foucault!

• Normal People on TV. >>Normal People in ink. 

• The 2020 New Zealand International Film Festival will be held on your sofa. 

• Visit New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art on-line.

• Free pdf books from Seagull Books. 

• Writer, writing. >>But what is he writing? 

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Issue #10

• An interesting interview with Carl Shuker. >>A Mistake is short-listed for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction in the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. 

• Rebecca Solnit: Who are our fairy tales for? >>All of her books are excellent. 

• Sally Rooney talks about Normal People (if there are any). >>There are Normal People at VOLUME. 

• Esterházy per se.

• Sharpen your shortest pencil for the NFFD flash fiction competition. 

• Sharpen your newest pencil for the Charles Brasch Young Writers' Essay Competition (closes 30 April). 

• On the correspondence(s) between Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, two of the 20th century's most penetrating (and tormented) literary minds. >>Your copy is on its way!

• Adventures in art — from the Suter Gallery.

• Books and Sleeves — animated!

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Issue #9

• Ockhams out loud! >>Find out more about the books short-listed for the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

• The short list for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction. >>Start reading!

• A Landfall audio gathering!

• 'A journey around my room' in lock-down with Portuguese poet Ana Luísa Amaral. >>Xavier de Maistre. 

• Breton Dukes's virtual launch of his book What Sort of Man? at an empty Woof (includes cocktails and music). >>What Sort of Man? will be here soon.

• Watch Great Apes (the play) by Will Self. >>Read the novel. 

• The writer's obligation in the Age of X. 

• Joanna Biggs talks to Thomas Jones about the life of Simone de Beauvoir. >>Becoming Beauvoir. 

• Anne Patchett on operating her bookshop in something equivalent to our forthcoming Level 3. 

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Issue #8

• "This isn't the end of the world." Jenny Offill and Mark O'Connell on history 'going about its business'. >>Weather. >>Notes from an Apocalypse. 

• Sarah Laing on Quarantoon with Dylan Horrocks. >>The Covid-19 Diaries.

• How Leonora Carrington rewrote the Surrealist narrative for women. >>Some books by or about Leonora Carrington. 

• Read NZ's Stay Home Book Club for young readers. 

• Don't Give Up the Fight — microfiction by Osama Alomar. >>Read Thomas's review of The Teeth of the Comb.

• Notes from Self-Isolation. 

• Some interesting discussions and reviews from Ark Books (Copenhagen's smallest bookshop). 

• Free NASA images. 

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Issue #7

• "Writing allows we to worry about stuff better." — Max Porter on Lanny, the pandemic and anxiety. >>Read our reviews of Lanny.

• Lavinia Greenlaw on the absence of light. >>Her latest books. 

• Post the view from your lock-down window on instagram (include the frame!) as a stay-home-and-save-lives activity. Use the hashtag #windowsontheworldinlockdown >>Based on Matteo Pericoli's book Windows on the World. 

• Tag your favourite bookshop to win a stash of BooksellersNZ tokens. 

• A feature on Landfall editor Emma Neale. 

• Join Hella Bauer's on-line Covid-19 writing group (Hella teaches a writing class at VOLUME (but this is not a writing class)).

• Beckett — a Quinn Martin production. 

• New Zealand typographer and hand-printer Tara McLeod on the joys of letterpress. >>His book.

• An important message from some librarians.

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Issue #6

• Lock-down letters from New Zealand authors. >>Ashleigh Young reaches for the cherries. 

• An interview with Vincent O'Sullivan by Majella Cullinane. 

• Eley Williams Spins. >>Attrib, could be yours after lock-down. 

• Kawakami v. Murakami: a feminist critique of Haruki Murakami's novels. 

• An interesting 2011 interview with David Vann, whose novel Halibut on the Moon is short-listed for the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. >>A Halibut for you after lock-down. >>See the other short-listed books. 

• A brief history of books that do not exist. 

• Three-dimensional correspondence.  

• If you were a banana... >>(The book could be yours). 

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Issue #5

• Download the excellent VUP Home Reader, a free e-book (or PDF) compiling extracts from books (to be) published this year (and into 2021) by Victoria University Press. 

• Dan Slevin on the current precarious but hopeful state of New Zealand bookshops. 

• Olga Tokarczuk on what we might learn from the coronacrisis. 

• Gregory O'Brien on painting a poem during lock-down. >>Always Song in the Water is yours after lock-down. 

• What will happen to the novel after this? 

• An interesting article on Anna Kavan ("Kafka's sister"), who lived for almost two years in New Zealand.  >>Read Thomas's review of Ice. 

• On The Plague by Albert Camus. >>Have The Plague on your doorstep after lock-down. 

• Lots of good free stuff from The Paris Review. 

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Issue #4

• Diane Williams, writer of superb short stories, in conversation. >>Read Thomas's assessment of Williams's stories. 

• Win yourself some book tokens!

• New Zealand writers read.

• An extract from Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive, which has just been awarded the 2020 Rathbones Folio Prize. >>We will get your copy to you as soon as delivery becomes possible again. 

• BookBound 2020, an antiviral literary festival (includes Max Porter, Sarah Perry, Freya Daly Sadgrove, Pip Adam, Philip Hoare)

• Lars Iyer talks about his latest book, Nietzsche and the 'Burbs. >>Your copy can be delivered as soon as delivery is again possible. >>“What can we, who are incapable of thought, understand of what the inability to think means for a thinker?” Read Thomas's review of Iyer's first book, Spurious. 

• What are the possible effects of the pandemic on bookselling and publishing? What are your thoughts?

• What happens when book readers get bored during quarantine. 

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Issue #3

• Sarah Laing's Covid-19 diaries. Recommended!

• Eamonn Marra will be reading 2000ft Above Worry Level in its entirety live on Friday. >>Order the book for delivery as soon as the emergency has been downgraded. 

• Jenny Offill on how "the subtraction of weight" enabled her to write Weather. >>We will get your copy to you as soon as the situation has been downgraded. 

• 'Party Games', a short story by Emma Neale. 

• Step inside Tove Jansson's private universe with Sheila Heti. 

• The Stinging Fly have opened their archives dating back to 1998. Excellent Irish and international writing. 

• The Novel Prize, probably the best unpublished manuscript prize you will have the opportunity to submit to this year. 

• On-line jigsaw puzzles using the collections at Te Papa.