Issue #10

• An interesting interview with Carl Shuker. >>A Mistake is short-listed for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction in the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. 

• Rebecca Solnit: Who are our fairy tales for? >>All of her books are excellent. 

• Sally Rooney talks about Normal People (if there are any). >>There are Normal People at VOLUME. 

• Esterházy per se.

• Sharpen your shortest pencil for the NFFD flash fiction competition. 

• Sharpen your newest pencil for the Charles Brasch Young Writers' Essay Competition (closes 30 April). 

• On the correspondence(s) between Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, two of the 20th century's most penetrating (and tormented) literary minds. >>Your copy is on its way!

• Adventures in art — from the Suter Gallery.

• Books and Sleeves — animated!

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