Issue #5

• Download the excellent VUP Home Reader, a free e-book (or PDF) compiling extracts from books (to be) published this year (and into 2021) by Victoria University Press. 

• Dan Slevin on the current precarious but hopeful state of New Zealand bookshops. 

• Olga Tokarczuk on what we might learn from the coronacrisis. 

• Gregory O'Brien on painting a poem during lock-down. >>Always Song in the Water is yours after lock-down. 

• What will happen to the novel after this? 

• An interesting article on Anna Kavan ("Kafka's sister"), who lived for almost two years in New Zealand.  >>Read Thomas's review of Ice. 

• On The Plague by Albert Camus. >>Have The Plague on your doorstep after lock-down. 

• Lots of good free stuff from The Paris Review. 

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