Issue #20
Issue #19
Issue #18
- "Writing is a kind of listening." >>Fosse on the shelf.
- A story from Diane Williams. >>Collected stories.
- Daisy Hildyard's Kobold.
- Interview with Teju Cole. >>Books.
- Murder is her hobby. >>18 tiny deaths.
- Meiko Kawakami on the virus in Japan.
- Refusing to mitigate the pain and isolation. >>Free Day.
- Lynn Jenner contributes to a record of lock-down around the world.
- Coetzee vs Don Quixote.
- Think JustSpeak.
- Patti Smith reads Virginia Woolf and Virginia Woolf speaks for herself.
Issue #16
- Olivia Laing on art in an emergency. >>Funny Weather.
- Brian Dillon on Essayism. >>Thomas on Dillon on Essayism.
- What sort of man? >>Well?
- Sanmao's footsteps. >>Stories of the Sahara.
- Hannah Arendt remembers W.H. Auden.
- Anne Kennedy vs. Beethoven. >>Moth Hour.
- Feminise your canon with Ingeborg Bachmann. >>Books!
- Sharpen your pencils for the NZPS International Poetry Competition.
- The creative communities that (apparently) changed literature for ever.
- Write 500 words per day and publish 50 books (or write only 10 words per day and publish one book).
Issue #15
- Growing up Wāhine Māori.
- Georges Perec remembers.
- Sheila Heti vs. Sally Rooney. >>Heti. >>Rooney.
- Join the Borderless Book Club.
- Gregory O'Brien dispatches from the pandemic. >>Other dispatches.
- Bythell in his bubble. >>Books by Shaun Bythell.
- Why do some writers burn their work?
- An interview with Eleanor Catton.
- Endgame: losing to win.
- The map is not the territory.
- Sharpen your pencil and look sharp.
- Instapoetry: "The references are hyper-contemporary, but have the patina of datedness."
- The reading habits of some famous authors are revealed.
- Sebald's small silences.
- The last book case you will ever need.
Issue #14
- Tonight's Ockhams included some of the most hilarious live footage of winning authors that you will ever see. >>The winning books!
- How to read a poem by Jane Arthur.
- Elizabeth Knox in the Book Bubble. >>The Absolute Book.
- On the First Night of Lock-Down (a poem by Cliff Fell)
- Warning: Contains poultry. >>Deb Olin Unferth's Barn 8 has just arrived.
- Strange libraries.
- The bread is over.
- Generate your very own Penguin Classics covers!
Issue #13
Issue #11
- 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.
- Sharpen your newest pencil for the Charles Brasch Young Writers' Essay Competition (closes 30 April).