Issue #101

• Never a catharsis. >>little scratch. 
• Crushed diamonds. >>Fish Soup and Holiday Heart. 
• American anarchist. >>The Dawn of Everything. 
• Mapping fiction. >>The Writer's Map. 
• The smell of sun-cream. >>Free. 
• Gloria. >>Books by Sam Duckor-Jones. 
• The performative power of negation. >>Judith Butler. 
• Jeanette Winterson, My Therapist and Me. >>Written on the Body. 
• Fuel!
• A print revolution. 
• Does your novel need a table of contents? 
• Beastly clues. 
• Punctuation predilections.
• Peculiar perils. 
• Mothers into monsters. 
• How to build a character.
• The death of the artist. >>This Is Not a Novel. 
• The destruction of Pompeii. 

 

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Issue #100

• Purification through transgression. >>The Books of Jacob. 
• Primitive accumulation. >>Caliban and the Witch. 
• Indigenous literature in a colonial society. >>The Bone People. 
• The joy of not reviewing a book. 
• The young Rosa Luxemburg. >>A biography. 
• What happens when people stop buying so many books? 
• The love of books. 
• Do you read? 
• Stories vs. ideas. 
• Ideas and the novel. 
• Covers for The Bell Jar. >>Take your pick. 
• People you don't know. 
• A radical resource. 
• "Write as if you are dying." 
• Modernising Chinese. 
• Highsmith at Yaddo. 
• Fermented fruit. 
• Preserved voice. 
• Wittgenstein 2022. 
• "Bookcore." 

 

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Issue #99

• Very short animal stories. >>Night Train.
• A day with Renée. >>These Two Hands. 
  
• Fifty disguises. 
• A girl's own story. >>The Inseparables. 
• The storybook marriage. >>The Provensen Book of Fairy Tales. 
• Naomi hits Mt Owen. 
• Domestic and national dramas. >>Empty Wardrobes. 
• The grand inquisitor. >>The Flood of Language. 
• Strap on an ox-head. >>The Morning Star. 
• The anthropocene unconscious of Shuggie Bain. >>Shuggie Bain. 
• Advice from Colson Whitehead. >>Harlem Shuffle. 
• The queen of shade and sass. 
• More bookshops!

 

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Issue #98

• Reduced means. >>Essays 2. 
• Perverted by language. >>Excavate!
• A turning tide. 
• The arrangement of the words matters. >>Let Me Tell You What I Mean. 
• Probably quite coincidental. >>Speak, Silence. 
• Silly, dangerous work. >>Joy. 
• Blundering in the dark. >>Can You Tolerate This?
• What the forest remembers. >>The Candy House. 
• On giving up. 
• And sitting down.

 

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Issue #97

• Nuku 100. >>Nuku—the book!
• Where to start with Olga Tokarczuk. >>Start now.
• In a tuft of thistle. >>Borges and Me. 
• Neoliberalism renders us powerless—and blames us for it. >>Futilitarianism. 
• The infinite library. >>Enter the library. 
• The philosopher's trail. >>A critical life. 
• A visit with Decur. >>When You Look Up. 
• From one bloody woman to another. >>Bloody woman. 
• Sex bots, religion, and the wild world of A.I. >>12 Bytes. 
• Meiji era Japan on film. 
• The art and activism of Grace Paley. >>The stories. 
• Eve Babitz's vision. 
  
• An "intimate conversation".
• A band of translators. 
• Dostoyevsky's manuscript. 
• Restored. 

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Issue #96

• The rise and fall of a messiah. >>The Books of Jacob. 
• Life after death. 
• A portrait of Michele Leggott. >>Mezzaluna. 
• "It’s Jewish blood that’s bringing the German people together." >>The Passenger. 
• What's so hard about crediting translators? 
• City of a thousand booksellers. 
• Hardwick times. >>Recommended reading. 
• A spouse divided. >>The Sinner and the Saint. >>The Gambler Wife. 
• Where to start with Imre Kertész. >>Your choice. 
• Searching for home with Carson McCullars. 
• Your reading list. 

 

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Issue #95

• All figured out. >>The Dawn of Everything.
• A mixture of contemplation and tension. >>Some Answers Without Questions. 
• Women and disgust. >>Something Out of Place. 
• Texts as living creatures. 
• Reading reality through the imagination. >>Some books by Vila-Matas. 
• Whatever happened to Harold Absalon? >>Whatever Happened to Harold Absalon? 
• How to train to be a writer. >>Some books by Schweblin. 
• Imagine the worst. 
• Between the experiment and the essence. 
• Encounters with the literary strange. 
• New Face in Hell. >>Excavate!

 

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Issue #94

• "Can we stand on your picnic table?" >>Aljce in Therapy Land. 
• In praise of the long sentence. >>Last Letter to a Reader. 
• Ideas have shapes. >>H of H Playbook. 
• The hunger is huge. >>Bloody Woman. 
• The most obscure sorrows. 
• Kafka swims. 
• What a sound looked like. >>Hellzapoppin'!
• The exploding library. >>The Third Policeman. 
• 100 books in te reo Māori. >>Ngāti Rānaki me Te Ranga Tipua.
• George Sand's boots. 
• AI Dante. 

 

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Issue #93

• Compartment. >>The Dolls.
• Are you reading parochially? >>Have a Lolli. 
• Hard and secret things. >>The Coming Bad Days. 
• A sentence is more than its meaning. >>Suppose a Sentence. 
• Reality as representation. 
• We all now exist as avatars. >>Zed. 
• Men dying for love. >>Brickmakers. 
• An exact emotional State. >>Books by Samanta Schweblin. 
• Lots of kids' books suck. >>Some goodies!
• Different languages open up different things in the mind.
• Writing's roots. 
• The virtues of the semicolon. >>Punctuate your life. 
• Play. 

 

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Issue #92

• Good girls write memoirs; bad girls make art. >>What I Learned at Art School. 
• Something is rotten. >>The Dolls. 
• More snakes than ladders. >>Too Much Money. 
• What a goal! >>Sterling Karat Gold. 
• Reality according to Tom McCarthy. >>The Making of Incarnation. 
• In praise of the meander. 
• The tangled wisdom of the human throat. >>The Unseen Body. 
• Rustle rustle rustle. >>The Tiny Woman's Coat. 
• The myth of the cast-iron pan. 
• Ten commandments for a healthy democracy. 
• Wellington mapped through its books. 
• The meaninglessness of meaning. >>A little Barthes. 
• Современная Архитектура.
• Archaeology.
• Calligrammes. 
• How women created new language. 
• Blanked verse. >>Make Blackout Poetry. 

 

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Issue #91

• Alternative routes. >>No. 91/92. >>Find out more. 
• In a choked state of mind. >>The Dolls. 
• "I've always been old at heart." >>The Fran Lebowitz Reader. 
• Unbecoming women. >>A Girl's Story. 
• A page pounded clean. >>The Dominant Animal. 
• Motherhood made her a literal dog. >>Nightbitch. 
• A survivor's guide to revision. 
• Blending research and imagination in historical fiction. >>Matrix. 
• The translator she never wanted to be. 
• Are you punctuated?
• Our next bookshop. 
• All about Basket. 
• How cats crept in. 
• Spot treatment. 

 

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Issue #90

• See what happens if you say yes. >>The Very Nice Box. 
• Lying next to a cute li‘l spud. >>"There is nothing funnier than depression."
• Oblique elementary meanness. >>Nioque of Early-Spring. 
• The Marxist and the Messiah. >>The Benjamin Files.
• A lick of night. >>Grief is the Thing with Feathers. 
• Making a cover. >>Tomine. 
• He's a poet and the FBI know it. 
• Poet, exile, and enfant terrible. >>Books by Boris Poplavsky. 
• Earlier than you thought. 
• Car hatred. 
• Skinning a cat. 
• Cooking with Mary Shelley. 

 

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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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