Issue #162

• Absolute horror at the political present. >>Shy.

• Risk! Risk anything! >>All Sorts of Lives.

• That’s a sheep. >>Nothing Special.

• A key period. >>The Fate of the Land.

• Consider the publisher. >>Dinner with Joseph Johnson.

• You are going to read this. >>The Premonitions Bureau.

• Badly behaved biographies.

• 20 under 40.

• Reading translated fiction makes you younger and smarter.

• The men with the pink triangle. >>The book.

• Writing the Nakba in Hebrew. >>Arabesques.

• Books and resistance.

• A dusty handrail on the track.

• Edward Gorey’s toys. >>Some Edward Gorey books.

• Mumchance, anyone?

• An interview with no questions.

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