Issue #65

• Fiction writers' round table with the Acorn Four. >>The books. 
• On the problems of inhabiting a body. >>Everybody.
• Coherent chaos. >>No-One is Talking About This. 
• Auckland was revolting. >>Time to Make a Song and Dance. 
• For goodness' sake! >>Fake Accounts. 
• Seeking a counterculture of commitment in an age of infinite browsing.
• Meet sheep. >>The History of the World According to Sheep. 
• Kierkegaard's struggle with himself. >>The struggle becomes books. 
• Redefining the modern flâneuse.
• The questions that animate an essay. >>My Body is a Book of Rules. 
• Blue stories. 
• Eliminate distractions and increase productivity!
• "I seek a kind person."

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Issue #64

• Extract of concrete. >>In Concrete. 
• "I never found myself in a book." —Patricia Grace
• Landscapes, hermits and storytelling. >>A Perfect Cemetery. 
• The self unmoored. >>Divorcing. 
• The secret history of my library. >>Ramifications. 
• On Trusting Readers to Handle Complex Projects.
• A mother is an intellectual thing. 
• On Adam Curtis's Can't Get You Out of My Head. >>Watch. 
• The computers are getting better at writing. 
• But nothing beats this typewriter. 

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Issue #63

• Life? or Theatre? >>The book.
• The International Booker Prize short list is announced. >>Your copies. 
• Truth strangled from ego. >>The Poetics of Work. 
• Interview with Samanta Schweblin. >>Little Eyes. 
• “Must Camille’s eyes remind us of something? Could they not just remind us of her and her eyes alone?”
• The art of book covers, 1820—1914. 
• “Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined.”
• "The world is very overwhelming and other people are very overwhelming." 
• On reading Russian literature in translation. 
• Coleridge's theory of ideas. 
• Catastrophe.

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Issue #62

• Sheila Heti and Rachel Cusk on why memoir is a dead end. >>Sheila Heti. >>Rachel Cusk. 
• The B-side of war. >>The Things We've Seen. 
• Artificial intelligence reveals the limits of our own. >>Klara and the Sun. 
• A place of possibility or a place of oppression? >>Feminist City. 
• A mystery to itself. >>Livewired. >>The Idea of the Brain. >>The Future of Brain Repair. 
• Eight ways of looking at Haruki Murakami. >>First Person Singular. 
• Samanta Schweblin and Valeria Luiselli share a bench. >>Schweblin. >>Luiselli.
• On starting an indie press and a family at the same time. 
• Girl stunt reporters. 
• Free digital versions of otherwise unavailable architecture books. 
• More photographs than you want.
• Cooking with Herman Melville. 

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Issue #61

• Reading Natalia Ginzburg. >>Read Natalia Ginzburg.
• Noémi Lefebvre interviews herself. >>Find out more about Poetics of Work. >>Read Thomas's review. 
• Thomas Bernhard's "fiction of the meaningless." >>Read Thomas's reviews. 
• An unexpected consequence of writing a memoir. >>In the Time of the Manaroans. 

• "I don't really know where a book comes from." >>Books from an unknown place. 

• Maitai stories from Maurice Gee. 
• "A unique bond between author and reader." >>Wild Swims. 
• Play TELEPHONE. 
• The imposition of meaning. 
  
• "Every author has his or her own particular difficulties."

• Maaza Mengiste launches photography archive of the 1935 Italo-Ethiopian War. >>The Shadow King. 
• The story of Stalker. >>Roadside Picnic. 

• "There is such a thing as overcaptialising the A in artist."
• Pantone guide (1692). 

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Issue #60

• A scene is only as good as you make it. >>Dwelling in the Margins.

• A novel about misogyny that was almost lost to it.  >>Divorcing. 
• The visible translator. 
• The Ockhams Poetry Sampler. >>Read the short-listed books. 
• The Valley and the Stream. >>How many Ls in Tranquilllity? 
• "Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."
• The indeterminacy of the human. 
• How women invented book clubs. 
• "I could express myself better by writing than by speaking. "
• On the similarity of literary translations and crossword puzzles. 
  
• Coffee House Press, anyone? 
• Witness Crime and Punishment. 
• Interpretations of Spinoza in early Russian Marxism. 
• The Kalevala. >>One for the shelf.  
• Choose a new desk from this Easter sale catalogue.

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 Issue #59

• The altar of oblivion. >>In Memory of Memory. 
• An "instant classic". >>Your copy of this instant classic. 
• Negative effort. >>Simone Weil. 
• Translators aloud. 
• Listen to the Havana Year Zero playlist. >>Read the book, too. 
• Fleeting narrators, disappearing text. >>Absentees. 

• Roland Barthes on his trapeze. >>The book by Typhaine Samoyault.

• Become a Book Scavenger. >>Read the series. 
• I Remember (a film about Joe Brainard). 
• "People were something for which he had a need, but little tolerance."  >>Read Thomas's reviews of Thomas Bernhard's books. 
• Fame and insecurity. 
• Edward Gorey, Frank O’Hara and Harvard’s gay underground.

• Search for pictures in art museums. 
• Not Brutal (in our window for Nelson Jewellery Week). 

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 Issue #58

• Time is all there is. >>Strange Hotel.
• The Ockhams fiction sampler. >>Read the rest.
• "Art is a tool for thinking." >>Funny Weather. 
• "We are stuck in structures we depend on and want to reject all at once." >>Girls Against God. 
• "Memory itself is a form of violence." >>Books by David Coventry. 
• Translating emergencies. >>Thomas reviews Poetics of Work. 
• The original set of Oblique Strategy cards. 
• Syria's rebel librarians. 
• How the cover was designed for >>Little Scratch.
• Imagining Nora Barnacle's love letters to James Joyce. >>Nora. 
• New Directions University. 
• Virtual bookshop visits. >>Here we are!
• Literary gun devices. 

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 Issue #57

• On literature and mathematics. 
• The real enemy is colonialism. >>The Committed. 
• Oh you darling robot! >>Klara and the Sun. 
• Nina Mingya Powles and ten things she loves. >>Magnolia 木蘭.
• Anne Carson! >>A few books. 
• Against the tide. 
• Shelf life. 
• On literary vs. popular fiction. 
• Outside the text. >>An Event, Perhaps. 
• Your workshop with Lynda Barry. >>Books. 
• The places of poetry. >>The book. 

• In a literary bind. 
• The poet's childhood. 

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 Issue #56

• Bomb under the table. >>Klara and the Sun. 
• "Indifference is a contemplative state." >>Poetics of Work. 
• Hermione Lee on Tom Stoppard. >>Read the rest of the book. 

• Was Duras directing her translators? >>Me, And other writings. 
• Embracing freaky futures. >>Dwelling in the Margins. 
• While I was working. >>An Inventory of Losses. 
• A melancholy Dane (with scissors). 
• What is the language of pain? >>Read Anne Boyer. 
• A miner is approached. 
• An interview with Elizabeth Hardwick. >>Recommended reading. 
• Why Melville House? 
• Busy fingers. 

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 Issue #55

• "Shorter than my other short books." >>The Death of Francis Bacon. 
• An old woman dares you to ignore her. >>Bina. 
• Contesting the limelight. >>Ngā Kete Mātauranga.

• Samuel Beckett's mute interview (1969). 
• The fight in us. >>The Adventures of China Iron.
• On the automatic translation of automatic writing. >>The Magnetic Fields. 
• Your score will be higher than you expect. 
• "Our great post-punk novelist." >>The Barker. 
• "I began the day..." >>Calamities reviewed. 
• 100 books. 
• Every slightest pebble. >>The poems of Anna Akhmatova. 

• Not exactly missing or not missing Lisbon. 
• 3,900 pages of Paul Klee’s notebooks.
• Discover a new city through books. 

• It's a competition, apparently. 

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 Issue #54

• Call me Ishmael. >>Use the phonebook. 
• Na dem dey hunt whales. 
• "The summer I turned 22 I went mad." >>Bus Stops on the Moon. 
• Cats are everywhere in her work. >>Lost Cat.

• Early morning writing in his head. >>Tranquillity and Ruin. 
• The breaking-up of the ice. >>The Weak Spot. 
• Miss Skippit. >>Analogous patisseries. 
• Two kinds of philosopher. 
• Milkweed. 
• How to Gray your day. >>Gray volumes. 
• Dante: our medieval contemporary. >>Take your pick. 
• "It’s very hard to review one’s past without cheating a little."

• Comma shop. 
•  Stopping the void. 
• Fernando Pessoa in our time.  >>Thomas reads The Book of Disquiet. 
• What to read. 
• Literally!

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 Issue #53

• "I hate Nadia beyond reason." >>The Lying Life of Adults. 
• Knox in box. >>The Absolute Book. 
• The VUP sampler! >>Your books are waiting for you. 
• Why you aren't famous. 
• Art monsters, humour and feminism. >>Jenny Offill. >>Chris Kraus.  
• "Life wouldn’t be worth living if I stopped writing." >>Gornickiana. 
• Joy Williams—Has the writer gone blind? >>Read Joy Williams. 
• On metaphor in Persian poetry. 
• How Granta became global. >>Read Granta. 
• No mind's eye. 
• "Kathy Acker is all the Kathies she ever was now." >>Some books. 
• A phrase or two in Rotwelsch. 

• A useful device. 

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 Issue #52

• Good writing habits.  >>Others of Lydia Davis's Essays. 
• The body, the state, and the border. >>Books by Cristina Rivera Garza. 
• In Kafka's Prague. 
• On Wordsworth's spectacles. 
• By the river. >>Books by Esther Kinsky. 
• How to draw literary cartoons. 
• James Joyce reads Ulysses. >>You read Ulysses. 
• The indie press experience. 

• Derrida vs. "Derrida"; Foucault vs. "Foucault".
• "Between the two parts there is an intermission of 100000 years."
• ( ), { }, [ ], and < >.

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 Issue #51

• The abyss echoes back. >>An Inventory of Losses. 
• A dispatch from the kingdom of chronic illness. >>Pranesi. 
• How to read a book. 
• The real thing. >>Long Live the Post Horn!
• Minor masterpiece of naive relic? >>Trout fishing, &c. 
• Embracing imperfection. 
• 'No' is not a word like any other. 

• More and more old book illustrations. 
• Looking forward. 
• Words on two wheels. 
• Do political revolutions spark literary revolutions? 
• A translator's diary. 

• Derek Walcott!

• Hope.
• A restoration. 
• On writing Nora Joyce. >>Written!
• Chess composing. 

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