Issue #149
- Archive fever. >>Spadework for a Palace.
- Welcome to the new world. >>The Visitors.
- The urgency of existence. >>I Fear My Pain Interests You.
- Kafka gone wild. >>What excuse do I have for having written nothing yet today? >>Diaries.
- A playlist for Margery Kempe. >>Re-Sisters.
- Before she can write she needs to walk. >>Books by Miriam Toews.
- How autofiction turns the personal into the political.
- A huge responsibility and a labour of love. >>Are Friends Electric?
- Literature out of a poisoned legacy. >>The 'Patrick Melrose' novels.
- Souvenir.
- The nocturnal picaresque.
- Changing our brains.
- Allen Ginsberg's self-recording sessions.
- A day in the life of a literary translator.
- Superstitions about animals.
- Translating prose into painting.
- So, it's the OED update, obvs.
- It is a typewriter.
- Our film recommendation this week: Vesper.
- The book that writes itself. >>Thomas meets the chatbot. >>Hello World!
- Katherine Mansfield misremembered.
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