Monday, August 16, 2021
Monday, August 9, 2021
- 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.
Monday, August 2, 2021
- "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.
Monday, July 26, 2021
- A sequence of crushings. >>The Cheap Eaters.
- Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale. >>In Memory of Memory.
- Mothertongue and murderertongue. >>Poems.
- Time and space to grow voice. >>Auē.
- Heteronymous identities. >>The Book of Disquiet.
- Disappearing antonyms.
- Heine's heartmobile.
- On enmity.
- A German library tour.
Monday, July 19, 2021
- Nothing to reconcile. >>At Night All Blood is Black.
- Ghost Story. >>Books by Pip Adam.
- No Man's Land. >>Terminal Boredom.
- The struggle for our bodies. >>Everybody.
- The importance of forgetting. >>The tyranny of remembering.
- This book is a question. >>The Hour of the Star.
- Mariana Enriquez and Megan McDowell. >>The Dangers of Smoking in Bed.
- The PANZ Book Design Awards short list.
- Fran Lebowitz is never leaving New York. >>The Fran Lebowitz Reader.
- Explanations of value. >>Your Williams.
- The von Behr Place. >>An Inventory of Losses.
- Our word against Kafka's.
- A 17th century Japanese cookbook.
- The dark side of chess.
Monday, July 12, 2021
- The Ultimate Reader of Love for the Book.
- Within this language a home. >>Lahiri. >>Mizumura.
- "My father's lover was never the stepdad I wanted him to be." >>Sterling Karat Gold.
- Seeing and being are not the same. >>The Voyage Out.
- An interview with Margaret Mahy.
- The many souls of Clarice Lispector's translators. >>Some of Lispector's books.
- Visit the Sigmund Freud Museum. >>This book!
- The first and possibly finest film adaptation of Dante.
Monday, July 5, 2021
- Minae Mizumura’s linguistic mission. >>An I-Novel.
- A home on the margins. >>Permafrost.
- Bicycle-powered guerrilla book publishing.
- On celebrating Matariki. >>Download the Matariki guidebook. >>Essential reading.
- Decolonising creative writing.
- On the pain of reading contemporary writing when you are a contemporary writer.
- Letterlocking.
- Fourteen poems about walking.
- Podcasts for the Women's Prize for Fiction. >>Read the books!
- Te Ramaroa.
- Flowers of fire.
- How to keep warm (Phyllis April King).
Monday, June 28, 2021
- In a sleepy, blue, sort of phosphorescent way. >>Sevastopol.
- Reading in bed with the feminists. >>Get In Bed.
- The covering cherub. >>The book!
- Designing Discomfort. >>The Discomfort of Evening.
- Illustrating for the imagination. >>Some books illustrated by Sarah Wilkins.
- Ali Smith wins the Orwell Prize. >>Summer.
- I came with a sword. >>Weil on the shelf.
- Meet Archipelago Press.
- Do you read Lybic?
- Learning to say 'cat'.
- Diderot's Letter on the Blind.
- When a bookshop closes, an argument ends.
- Print culture of the 1960s.
- Sharp editing.
Monday, June 21, 2021
- In an intergalactic cocoon. >>Find out more about The Employees.
- Isn't that so. >>The Communicating Vessels.
- Murnane on Inland. >>Thomas on Inland.
- The bibliography is the medium. >>Debths.
- How to be creative.
- When the present is haunted by the past. >>Minor Detail.
- Pain on the page.
- Literary carbohydrates.
Monday, June 14, 2021
- Two poems by Tayi Tibble. >>Rangikura.
- Autofiction's first boom. >>An I-Novel.
- "Literature has the power to combine elements that ordinary life keeps apart." >>The Fool.
- Rachel Kushner watches films. >>And writes books.
- Embodying a female text. >>A Ghost in the Throat.
- The Footprints of Bashō, Hearn, and Borges on the Roads of Japan.
- Meditations on Celan. >>Read yourself.
- Private lives, public faces. >>Arendt.
- Inside the coffin is the graveyard. >>Some books written at that desk.
Monday, June 7, 2021
- Meet Airini Beautrais. >>Bug Week.
- The Gospel of C.K. Stead. >>What You Made of It. >>The Mirror Book.
- Bullying and Nietzsche. >>Heaven.
- Cultural revolt in Auckland. >>Time to Make a Song and Dance.
- History is the throbbing pulse. >>A Ghost in the Throat.
- More babies, better mood, worse smell. >>Adorable.
- A game of cut-outs. >>Notes from Childhood.
- A product of cell-level grief. >>Temporary.
- “Making cartoons is a way of avoiding feelings of pointlessness and despair and still not being too upbeat.” >>A few books by Roz Chast.
- The horror is in you. >>Thomas reviews Malina.
- The woman who fell in love with an island. >>Books by or about Tove Jansson.
- Ruth Asawa and her sculptures. >>Your book.
- Enjoy your security. >>'The Burrow'.
- Stella on air. >>The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again.
- Thomas goes to the gallery.
- Looking for truth with a pin.
Monday, May 31, 2021
- Fiction as embodied knowledge. >>Some books by Luiselli.
- Olga Ravn talks about The Employees. >>The Employees.
- Matrix feminist architecture archive.
- Listen to the first part of Girl, Woman, Other. >>Read the rest yourself.
- "And finally I'll say goodbye." >>Anna Akhmatova.
- The evolutionary uses of storytelling.
- Café life and literati in Prague.
- Blindness. >>Blindness.
- "I've always loved bookstores." >>Bookstores the book.
Monday, May 24, 2021
- On memory and motorcycles. >>The Hard Crowd.
- Stepanova on Sebald. >>The Voice Over.
- "Was she promiscuous?" Paula Morris on Robin Hyde and Kate Chopin.
- Cure for a broken brain.
- "The weaker sex—that’s always been a joke.” >>King Kong Theory.
- On the connection between art and self-destruction.
- Electric outlets. >>Some books by Jelinek.
- On finishing Finnegans Wake. >>"A heaving sea of chaotic association and permutation."
Monday, May 17, 2021
- Exquisitely cruel home truths. >>Second Place.
- Reading with the mouth. >>The Employees.
- “I was only writing about normal things.” >>From the Centre.
- Chat with Patricia Lockwood. >>No One is Talking About This.
- Climbing Desolation Peak. >>The Secret to Superhuman Strength.
- On self-translation. >>Whereabouts.
- Free Foucault! >>Buy now.
- Joy Williams! >>Recommended reading.
- The carrier bag theory of fiction.
- Do animals fall in love? >>Well?
- "Language is no more fixed or stable than anything else." >>In Concrete.
- Grief's Universals.
- Why we remember more by reading print.
- Victorian knitting.
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