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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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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Issue #81

When Nobody Was Looking. >>Justice and Race. 

Home Truths. >>Read our reviews of Second Place. 

Leaking bodies. >>Adorable. 

The personal at arm's length. >>The Limits of My Language. 

Propped up by structures that could collapse at any moment. >>Sevastopol. 

The stream of consciousness is more like a whirlpool. >>Loop. 

Pen portraits. >>Read Thomas's review of The Death of Francis Bacon.

Something going on in Spanish. >>The best!

“It is a mistake to view Arabic novels as ethnographic documents of their authors’ countries." >>Celestial Bodies. 

The responsibilities and pleasures of translation. 

Translation as visiting the past. 

Tai Moana, Tai Tangata. 

New York's legendary literary hang-outs. 

The future was better protected than the past. 

Can you solve it? 

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Issue #80 (Bumper lock-down issue)

• Head and shoulders. >>He Ringatoi o ngā Tūpuna.
• Short chapters of a woman who couldn't go placidly. >>What I Learned at Art School.
• A journey through loneliness. >>Seek You. 
• Mogera Wogura. >>Books by Hiromi Kawakami. 
• Starling in Winter. 
• The sympathetic vitaliser. >>Remote Sympathy. 
• No dull moments in lock-down. 
• A furious womanifesto. >>Things Are Against Us. 
• Female ghosts and spirits from Japanese folklore, ranked. >>Where the Wild Ladies Are. 
• The meticulous one. >>Books by Ingeborg Bachmann. 

• "I see no distinction between being a writer and being a translator."

• The invisible city beneath Paris. 
• The bookseller as humanist. >>Vespasiano da Bisticci. 
• France's regional languages. 
• The most popular children's books from every country in the world. 
• Slave language revival. 
• Marx on the beach. 
• Hand gestures last longer. 
• Beckett's radical finitude. 

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Issue #79

• "There must be more to life than who to blame." >>Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life. 
• "Facts are almost completely devoid of meaning." >>When We Cease to Understand the World. 
• Born to dig. >>Underground. 
• The heart of the trouble. >>My Phantoms. 

• "The politics of loneliness are more complex than merely liberating." >>The Coming Bad Days. 
• 'The Island.' >>Books by and about Tove Jansson. 

• Close to nothing. >>Books by Fleur Jaeggy. 
• Faces in a Face. >>Nervous System. 
• Literate mushrooms. >>Entangled Life. 
• From Memory Rose into Threshold Speech. >>Books by Paul Celan. 
• Edward Gorey's strange ambitions. >>Born to Be Posthumous. 
• A chart you didn't know you needed. 

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Issue #78

• 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. 

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