Issue #281
A can of worms. >>Angst.
If a Bridgerton and a Jane Austen character met. >>The Encyclopedia of Ugly Fashion.
Our film recommendation this wek: All I Had Was Nothingness.
Issue #281
A can of worms. >>Angst.
If a Bridgerton and a Jane Austen character met. >>The Encyclopedia of Ugly Fashion.
Our film recommendation this wek: All I Had Was Nothingness.
Issue #280
It is necessary to speak from the uncomfortable place of subjectivity. >>Lithium.
Why the novel matters. >>My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein.
Morality as a zero sum game. >>The Quantity Theory of Morality.
How should we look at the period formerly known as the Renaissance? >>Inventing the Renaissance.
What do we have when we do not have a story? >>Hell of Solitude.
In twenty years most of the world could be racist dictatorships. >>Chain of Ideas.
Our film recommendation this week: High and Low.
How to write a statement condemning violence without saying anything.
Issue #279
The International Booker shortlist films. >>The International Booker shortlist books.
A one-sentence review. >>The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise.
Questioning the quotidian. >>The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise.
Womanhood, identity, and fairy tales. >>Seasons of Glass and Iron.
There is no art that is separate from politics. >>Seasons of Glass and Iron.
Our film recommendation this week: Les Créatures.
Issue #278
Issue #277
The way of salt and sin. >>Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group.
There is no literary problem that can’t be solved through walking. >>they.
Exiled to the op shop. >>Kupe and the Great Octopus of Muturangi.
The importance of representation. >>We Are Green and Trembling.
Uncanny the singing that comes from certain husks. >>The Pelican Child.
Intolerable atrocities, abominations, brutalities. >>The Duke.
Little by little, he makes out the forms of things. >>Wilderness of Mirrors.
A very interesting person’s exact idea of a very good time. >>Nonesuch.
Our film recommendation this week: The Man With the Movie Camera.
Issue #276
A fable about totalitarianism written in brain-fluid. >>Schattenfroh.
Radical optimism. >>Helm.
The fate of the artist under totalitarianism. >>The Director.
Which of our thoughts are interesting? >>Any Person Is the Only Self.
The brilliant and necessary southern aunt of New Zealand Letters. >>A Writer’s Life. >>This Moment, Every Moment.
Our film recommendation this week: Sentimental Value.
Issue #275
Exhausting a constituted fragment of the world. >>Fourteen Ways of Looking.
Culpability. >>Party Boy.
How can you really tell the truth about this moment? >>Vigil.
A place of life and stories. >>Somebody Is walking On Your Grave.
A surprising offer. >>The Last Wolf. >>Other books by Krasznahorkai.
Our film recommendation this week: The Castle. >>Read the book.
Issue #274
Gliff in the spruce forest. >>Gliff. >>So in the Spruce Forest.
Beyond Kataraina. >>Auē. >>Kataraina.
Watch: The Thing with Feathers. >>Read: Grief Is the Thing with Feathers.
Issue #273
The fingerprint and the roller coaster. >>Some Helpful Models of Grief.
Edith Holler in the card theatre. >>Edith Holler. >>Download, print, and make the card theatre.
Transparency and trust. >>How to Rebuild Trust in Journalism.
The stories we tell become the world we inhabit. >>Between Two Rivers.
How do you want to spend your free time? >>In Defence of Leisure.
Education and hope. >>Understanding Te Tiriti. >>Understanding Hauora.
Issue #272
Issue #271
Literature as technology. >>Good and Evil and Other Stories.
Fear, healing, and terrifyingly permeable boundaries. >>Good and Evil and Other Stories.
Merging autofiction with speculative fiction. >>State of Paradise.
Thirty years to write a novel about one day. >>On the Calculation of Volume.
How to make a time loop endlessly interesting. >>On the Calculation of Volume.
Straight from the cemetery. >>The Cemetery of Untold Stories.
What our relationship with cats reveals about ourselves. >>Cat.
Wittgenstein vs. Wittgenstein. >>Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. >>Philosophical Investigations.
Our film recommendation this week: Cria Cuevrvos.
Issue #270