Issue #27

• Jacqueline Rose on The Plague.  >>Popular Plague.
• Marlon and Jake read dead people. 
• What to pack for Siberia. >>Don't lose your piano in Siberia. 
• Tove Jansson falls in love. 
• Writing about not writing. 
• Language as a virus. >>Thomas reviews Die, My Love. 
• English has its own music. 
• "The greatest menace to the writer is the reader." 
• Verismilitude — Melinda Harvey's Cuskian 'review' of Cusks. >>Read Thomas's Cuskian 'reviews' of these books.  
• A broken mirror. >>Books by Ananda Devi. 
• "I do wonder to what extent writing about motherhood is actually writing about being mothered."  >>Your blue ticket. >>And some burnt sugar. 
• What to do this Wednesday at 6 PM. 
• A little fellow with a big head. >>Thomas reviews The Book of Disquiet. 
• The bookcase that converts into a coffin (useful). 

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Issue #26

• The 2020 Edinburgh International Book Festival will be held on your sofa (and it's free). 
• Confessions of a jaded bookseller. 
• Billy bloody Apple. >>The Mirror Steamed Over. 
• The Dance Prone playlist. >>Find out more about Dance Prone. 
• Starling #10. 
• On drawing babies. >>On making babies. 
• "I try to write a sentence as unbudging and fully itself as some object sitting on a shelf in my office.">>The Dominant Animal. 
• The sentence is a lonely place. 
• The Silver Age of Russian poetry. 
• Grace Paley!
• Silence to Silence. 
• Blanchot at home. >>Thomas reviews The Writing of the Disaster. 
• How many words are there in the English language? 
• Who owns Kafka?

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Issue #25

• Binge-watch the 2020 AWF winter series. 

• Ways of being male. >>Sprigs. 

• How to write a novel in a world that won't stop changing. 

• The Disaster Tourist. >>The Disaster Tourist. 

Literature class. >>Literature Class.

• Soviet space dogs. >>Who says we don't have any books about dogs?  
Who we're reading when we're reading Murakami. 
Female character written by Hemingway — or houseplant? 
Stranger books.
Not I.

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Issue #24

• Watch the 'watch parties' for the 2020 International Booker Prize. >>The short-listed books. 

• Your Surrealist starter kit. 

• Legacy Bottle Opener. 

• Optimism and Despair. 

• How reading informs writing. 

• Shin-Bijutfromsukai.

• Two stories  Kate Zambreno. >>Books by Zambreno. 

• Can a novel be silent?

• Julio. 

• Bonsai!

• Get your fringe on. 

• Writing as an act of distancing.  >>In Our Mad and Furious City. 

• No ISBN. 

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Issue #23

• The Decameron Project.

• Linton Kwesi Johnson has been awarded the 2020 PEN Pinter Prize. 

• The awful force of inanimate things. >>Machines in the Head. 

• Jenny Hval on the books that inspire(d) her. >>Paradise Rot. 

• The poetry vaccine. 

• How Vivian Gornick writes memoir. 

• Poo Bum on TV.  >>The books. 

• At the type archive. 

• Gorey covers the classics. 

• Joan Didion, 1978. 

• "We're not asleep, but we're also not awake." 

• Getting your hands dirty. 

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Issue #22

• "The Flying Nun of 21st cent. Kiwi lit." >>3 a week for 3 months!

• The perfect choice. >>I am the Brother of XX. 

• Putting a cover on The Plague. 

• Sarah Manguso on oceans. >>Odd planets. 

• Who enables writers to write? 

• Resolutely plotless. >>The Rings of Saturn. 

• Even Seamus Heeney made mistakes. 

• At home — on-line!

• Warrior librarians. 

• A 16th century e-reader? 

• Alexei Sayle as Godot. 

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Issue #21

• More empathy, less fear!

• About being yourself. 

• Sally Rooney at the clinic. 

• Close to nothing. >>Some books by Jaeggy. 

• What is Translationese? 

• Wandering through literary Lisbon in search of Pessoa's disquiet. >>The Book of Disquiet.  

• The horror of humanity. >>Books by Han Kang. 

• Poetic justice!

• He, She, One, They, Ho, Hus, Hum, Ita. >>What's your pronoun? 

• We fight fascists. >>We Fight Fascists. 

• Paul Auster, Jewish poet. 

• Is this the most terrifying book trailer ever made? 

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Issue #20

• An anti-racist reading list for New Zealand. >>Start reading. 

• Robert Walser's and Jean Genet's dreams, solitude and mundane things. >>Moyra Davey's Index Cards. 

• Tom McCarthy on Ulysses and its wake. 

• Ulysses without interruption.

• Everything becomes buffering.

• Why is a W made of two Vs?

• Contradicted and conflicted. 

• Writers rebel.

• A feature on the wonderful Fitzcarraldo Editions. 

• A Spanish opera house re-opens, but only to plants. 

• Construct your own Bayeux Tapestry. 

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Issue #19

• Peter Simpson on studying Colin McCahon. >>Is this the promised land? 

• Rebecca Solnit on the myth of the art monster. 

• Meet C.K. Stead. >>You have a lot to lose.

• "Literature can foster and express our shared humanity." 

• Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo on contextualising history. 

• Love letters from Tove Jansson. 

• A story by Esther Kinsky. 

• Conjuring the smelly giant. >>The book!

• How women are changing the face of publishing in Africa. 

• Some American poets. 

• A Bloomsday quiz!

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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. 

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Issue #17

• Anne Serre's house of confinement. 

• The novel that made the novel modern. >>Meet Michael.

• Janet Malcolm — the art of non-fiction. 

• Long Distance (Alejandro Zambra)

• Go Up the Mountain! >>Your Mountain.

• Samuel Beckett, the ultimate realist. 

• A free story from J.K. Rowling (no Harrys here).

• How to read more books in a golden age of content. 

• The 100 most spoken languages. 

• The pandemic seen from the eyes of a puma. 

• Malina as a performance piece >>and as a book.

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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). 

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