Issue #32

• Te Wiki o te Reo Māori.
• What's in your kete?
• They called her the witch. >>Hurricane Season.
• Are these the best local book designs this year?
  
• Book for Word. 
• Even the simplest words have secrets. >>Homesick. 
• An anthropologist's perspective. >>Magdalena. 
• Attend or "attend" the NZ Young Writers' Festival. 
• On Nathalie Léger. >>By Nathalie Léger. 
• Q&A with Issa Watanabe.  >>Migrants. 
• "I somehow became caught up in my grandfather the way one gets caught in rain.'' >>Minor Monuments. 
• Non-fiction's lost performative. 
• A digitised complete run of the influential 1960s magazine Avant Garde.
• All the better to hear you with. 
• Creative non-fiction writing prompts. 

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Issue #31

• Survival. >>Sprigs. >>Nothing to See. 
• The doozie quotuient. >>The Swimmers. 
• Kafka's characters have no choice. 
• Hone Tuwhare recordings. >>Small holes in the silence. 
• Cooking with Calvino. 
  
• Reading aloud allowed. 
• A story in one picture. 
• Sarraute gets her due. >>Thomas on Tropisms. 
• An Assyrian library. 
• 36 metaphors for translation. 
• Suppressing information. 
• The Blue Ticket playlist. >>Your Blue Ticket. 
• Enter the Garden of Earthly Delights. 

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Issue #30

• The judges on the winner of the 2020 International Booker Prize.  >>More about the book and its author. >>Read the book!
• Can a city be feminist? >>Feminist City. 
• Leprosy of the soul. >>Boredom (live). 
• Beyond hygge. >>Wild Swims. 
• The present haunted by the past. >>Thomas reviews Minor Detail. 
  
To each book its own cake. >>To you your own ducks. 
Demystifying the writer's fear of failure. 
"Have you been translated by men?" >>Books by Harwicz. 
Why does anyone write? 
Patricia Lockwood: insane after Coronavirus? 
Hurrah for librarians!
A century of Shakespeare & Co. 
The beautiful cosmos of Ivor Cutler.
Frog and Toad tentatively go outside after months in self-quarantine. 

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Issue #29

• The words we choose — on translating the books on the International Booker short list. >>Find out about the books. >>Countdown!
• "The emotional relation we have with reality is part of the truth." >>Melchor. >>Herrera. 
• At the bookshop (1860s—1960s). 
• Self searches for self. 
• Has self-awareness gone too far? 
Anything but rest and relaxation. >>Death in Her Hands. 
Sentence structures. 
Get ready for the Māori Language Moment. 
Opening Louise Bourgeois's suitcase. >>Have you read this? 
Social distancing in movie posters.
13 Ways of looking at flash fiction. 
Frank Bidart's apartment is full of books. >>Half Light. 
Long overdue. 

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Issue #28

• Zadie Smith on writing in the pandemic.  >>Intimations. 
• Nathalie Sarraute: Between Genders and Genres. >>Thomas on Tropisms. 
• A poem by Tony Beyer. 
• "If something is usually done in novels but I can’t actively justify doing it, then I don’t do it." >>Exciting Times. 
• Olga Tokarczuk absorbs stories. >>All squeezed out. 
• Self-exposure. 
• Inside the New York Public Library's last secret apartments. 
• How animated!
• Alternatives to being a "writer's writer".
• All life long, the same questions, the same answers. 

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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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