Issue #236

• A grifter on the block. >>The Life and Opinions of Kratik Popat.

• Death-cleaning, ageing, and loss. >>Delirious.

• Death is too terrible, so real estate is where we let ourselves feel. >>Delirious.

• Maybe she was just messing with me. >>Delirious.

• A world without dogs. >>Invisible Dogs.

• Observations that hit like a truck. >>Poorhara.

• Quick chats. >>The Booker short list.

• Aftermath. >>A Leopard-Skin Hat.

• Self-portrait with toaster. >>Final Cut. >>Watch the trailer.

• The men are not OK. >>Blue Ruin.

• Prawns his sirens. >>I Will Crash.

• The value of your body. >>Gifted.

• Sticky velvet wings. >>Stone Yard Devotional.

• Aliens in their swanky robes. >>Turncoat.

• A wry dissection of privilege. >>The Coin.

• Gothic horror with a twist. >>A Sunny Place for Shady People.

• The right kind of doll. >>My Good Bright Wolf.

• A strange, sad obsession. >>Books by Tusiata Avia.

• Are you a font expert?

• “I can’t help the world heal.”

• Iwi, kiwi, and te Tiriti.

• Early modern maths.

• The way to go.

• Our film recommendation this week: Martha : A picture story.

• 17th century death roulette.

• The literary scene.

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Issue #235

• Making it work. >>Episodes.

• Without moving her lips. >>The Remarkables.

• Some kind of reversal. >>Creation Lake.

• Loving the limitations of the novel. >>Intermezzo.

• Glimpses of Utopia. >>Intermezzo.

• A good fit. >>He Kupu nā te Māia.

• The archive as potter’s field. >>The Last Sane Woman.

• I want to read about women who can’t make things. >>The Last Sane Woman.

• A razor blade in a peach. >>Fleur Adcock’s Collected Poems.

• Artemis Victor vs. Andi Taylor. >>Headshot.

• A different kind of speech act. >>Recognising the Stranger.

• Not a fixed position. >>rock flight.

• A mysterious business.

• Radical hope. >>History for Tomorrow.

• Unflinching acceptance. >>The Architecture of Modern Empire.

• Reading as resistance. >>Forms of Freedom.

• Celebrating Māori hospitality. >>From the maunga to the moana.

• Losing a sister to forced separation. >>Women Holding Things. >>Still Life with Remorse.

• Arresting originality. >>Edith Collier.

• The postures of the mouth.

• Between agency and fate.

• The kiss of death.

• The real wreckers of art. >>Books by Thomas Bernhard.

• From Beowulf to Foucault. >>Books by Cormac McCarthy.

• “I became besotted.” >>Books by Gavin Bishop.

• Buy books not meth.

• Precubism.

• Conflict in literature.

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Issue #234

• The Booker short-list films. >>Find out about the books!

• Stitches, stems and pockets. >>Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other.

• Bad subsidence. >>All My Precious Madness. >>Read an extract.

• Sardines in space. >>Orbital.

• Palpable empathy. >>Books by Han Kang.

• Sibling torment. >>I Will Crash.

• Everything in the physical world emerges through the world of fiction and imagination. >>The Great When.

• Absence, presence and disappearance. >>The Book of Disappearance.

• A prisoner writes. >>The Tale of a Wall.

• Behind all the plaster. >>Scaffolding.

• On the way to a funeral. >>The results of inspiration.

• Kiwi adolescence. >>Tsunami.

• On the Road on its head. >>Tripticks.

• Hope and despair. >>A Leopard-Skin Hat.

• The next chapter.

• The usual story.

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Issue #233

• Asylum dreams. >>The Edge of the Alphabet.

• Janet Frame at 100. >>The Edge of the Alphabet.

• Space pastoral. >>Orbital.

• The good hacker. >>Plurality.

• We were not always Indigenous. >>This Mouth Is Mine.

• Experimental writing and transformative politics. >>Vehicle.

• Violence and misogyny as some sort of constant illness. >> The Empusium.

• The breath out. >>Kataraina.

• On (not) reading Anne Frank. >>The Safekeep.

• Scathing. <<All My Precious Madness.

• Deprivation exercises. >>I Don’t Care.

• What if there’s just no solution? >>Future of Denial.

• Backwards is North. >>Wrong Norma.

• Male anxiety and the global crisis. >>Self-Esteem and the End of the World.

• Our ghosts are wandering around. >>The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.

• The breathing author. >>Books by Gerald Murnane.

• Labouring away. >>Books by Imre Kertesz.

• Trauma as a weapon of war. >>Doppelganger.

• Unit One.

• Behind the curtain.

• Escapes.

• Playing pool.

• The Bayeux Animation.

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Issue #232

• Voyage into delusion. >>The Edge of the Alphabet.

• Midlife realisations and rebellions. >>Lioness. >>Do You Still Have Time for Chaos?

• At least in theory. >>On Freedom.

• An ode to the power of cinema. >>Seeing Further.

• On returning to and reinterpreting the classics. >>The Empusium.

• Making a splash. >>The Mermaid Chronicles.

• Won at auction. >>You can order The Book of Guilt now!

• The American sentence. >>Three Lives.

• The analyst and the bard. >>Second Chances.

• From Pesoa.

• The connection between writing and dreams.

• Core demands.

• Try upstairs!

• New Zealand Police acronyms you need to know.

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Issue #231

• A health resort horror story. >>The Empusium.

• More than just TB. >>The Empusium.

• Wandering fragments. >>Praiseworthy.

• Bill Direen’s dustbin of empathy. >>100 Years of Darkness.

• ‘With My Back to the World, 1997.’ >>With My Back to the World.

• Narrative sovereignty. >>Audition.

• Radiant nothingness. >>The Passion According to G.H.

• Dreaming within the text. >>Moby-Dick.

• Obliterations or substitutes? >>Enacting the disease. >>Performance.

• The PANZ Book Design Award winners.

• Sometimes-food or daily bread?

• Crayon processes.

• Populists, frauds, and flip-phones.

• What is the point of literature in a democracy?

• Surrealism at 100.

• Community and connection.

• Retyping as close reading.

• Kei tāku īmēra i mua.

• lol.

• Almost ready to write.

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Issue #230

• A curated tour. >>Modern Women.

• A genius in pink jandals. >>Rewi.

• All in a drop. >>The Are Rivers in the Sky.

• Transformational. >>The Invasion of Waikato.

• Life is not fair. >>Wrong Norma.

• The obscene excess of the literary. >>Verdigris. >>You, Bleeding Childhood.

• What would you add?

• She wrote about all her lovers. >>Secret Voices.

• Ulysses and its wake. >>Ulysses.

• Crown Heights North.

• Illustrator to illustrator.

• George Saunders’s writing education.

• From Kafka’s window.

• A pretty good life.

• What to do with a book.

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Issue #229

• A philosophical spy novel for an age of environmental anxiety. >>Creation Lake.

• “I never told my husband I was a novelist.” >>Mina’s Matchbox.

• Language as a living thing. >>Spontaneous Acts a.k.a. Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel.

• Celan reads Japanese.

• The writing life. >>Elkin. >>Levy. >>Darrieussecq.

• The good hacker. >>Plurality.

• Love and trauma. >>The Echoes.

• Butting heads. >>The Fight for Freshwater.

• Ta rē Moriori revival. >>Ten Nosey Weka.

• Why A.I. isn’t going to make art. >>Stories of Your Life and Others.

• “I never had the intention to be an author.” >>Books by Jon Fosse.

• The supreme conradictions of Simone Weil. >>Books by or about Simone Weil.

• The long view.

• The power of picture books.

• Humanity’s strangest language.

• The seven kinds of friendship you find in literature.

• No one’s going to fund two old men. >>The Street of Crocodiles and the Sanatorium under the Hourglass.

• A word about a word addressed to a word.

• Samuel Beckett’s objection to Franz Kafka.

• The universal board.

• Shock without awe.

• Our film recommendation this week: Beyond the Hills.

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Issue #228

• Double dealing in deepest France. >>Creation Lake.

• Does language make art happy? >>Like Love.

• Turning the lights on. >>All Fours.

• 160 years on from the fighting. >>The Invasion of Waikato.

• On Nine Girls. >>Nine Girls.

• A carousel of lives. >>Parade.

• Janet Frame is still under my pillow. >>Books by Janet Frame.

• A Marxist analysis of Emily Perkins. >>Forms of Freedom. >>Books by Emily Perkins.

• Landscapes of the mind. >>Books by Gerald Murnane.

• Reasons to End Us. >>Books by Tracey Slaughter.

• 3 good excuses.

• A natural extension.

• Solidly in between.

• William Blake’s cottage will be saved.

• Living dolls.

• A feeling for ice.

• Our film recommendation this week: Blood Simple.

• Get the terminology right.

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Issue #227

• A kind of Arctic madness. >>A Woman in the Polar Night.

• What I write about when I write about mermaids. >>The Mermaid Chronicles.

• Luminous attention. >>Enlightenment.

• Gloves on! >>Wrong Norma.

• A crush on a Victorian. >>The Ministry of Time.

• Nocturnal tonguejests. >>Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel.

• You are what you write. >>No Judgement.

• The critic in the internet age. >>No Judgement.

• Kafka himself would have loved them. >>A Cage Went in Search of a Bird.

• Lurching towards constitutional impropriety. >>A Survival Guide.

• Tales of arboreal obsession. >>The Tree Collectors.

• The power of quitting. >>Quit Everything.

• How to design our topography? >>Philosophy of the Home.

• Together with Lorenza Mazzetti. >>The Sky Is Falling.

• Starling.

• Spooky sexy. >>Mrs S.

• Siding with joy. >>Books by Anne Serre.

• Only fifty experts.

• How to become a literary powerhouse.

• Abeceda.

• How to catch a thief.

• Waning days.

• The evolution of the London accent.

• Dominos.

• Our film recommendation this week: Dance First.

• Pooh or Proust?

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Issue #226

• A swish of the tail. >>The Mermaid Chronicles.

• Professional mermaid. >>The Mermaid Chronicles.

• Dolphin Princess. >>Whaea Blue.

• Our unconscious desires. >>Scaffolding.

• On remembering to touch base with yourself. >>Scaffolding.

• The magic of paying attention. >>Like Love.

• The conversations she wants to be having. >>Like Love.

• What we learn about Kafka from his uncensored diaries. >>Diaries.

• Emily goes to Hollywood. >>Lioness.

• Janet Frame at 100. >>The Edge of the Alphabet forthcoming from Fitzcarraldo Editions!

• Each page is a load.

• Life after life. >>Metamorphoses.

• One snapshot. >>Glorious People.

• Your words used your way will generate your meanings. >>Vagabonds!

• The reading kind.

• Education in the ‘good old days’.

• Killer collections.

• What you know but don’t know that you know.

• Our film recommendation this week: The Painter and the Thief.

• Paradise.

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Issue #225

• A walk backwards. >>Whaea Blue.

• “I always think I know better than Pākehā men in corduroy pants.” >>Whaea Blue.

• Another kind of love story. >>Splinters.

• Libido Re Mi. >>All Fours.

• A cultural sore spot. >>Liars.

• So many of my ideas get lost. >>Doppelganger.

• Dissolving the glue. >>Your Duck Is My Duck.

• The Georg Complex.

• What makes people unique?

• Chillingly familiar.

• Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud.

• The Sun considered as a cool solid.

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