Issue #39

• People get up to all sorts of things inside their houses. >>Remote Sympathy. 
• The books that made Andrew O'Hagan. >>Mayflies. 
• PANZ Book Design Awards, 2020. 
• On illustrating a children's cookbook. >>Egg & Spoon. 
• Quardleoodleardlewardledoodle. 
• Let's try again. Start over. >>Thomas reviews Léger x 3.
• My own personal contagion. 
• Four poems by Bill Manhire. >>Wow. 
• Self-exposure. 
• Beckett on the beach. 
• The only way out is through. 
• Tove in Wonderland. 

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 Issue #38

• Suppose Brian Dillon and Olivia Laing. >>Thomas considers supposing. 
• By writers, for writers, on writing. 
• Nettle. >>Joy on the shelf. 
• A Common Seagull. >>How Should a Person Be? 
• Cheap paper and the order of the alphabet. >>A Place for Everything. 
  
• Lost and found.  >>The lost review. 
• A door for you alone. 
• ,,.,","
• The death of Max Jacob. 
• Gender trouble. >>Read Judith Butler. 
• Derrida beats. >>"Take apart my baby's heart."
• A room of one's own. 
• How to think. 

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 Issue #37

• A quality nap? >>The Goldsmiths Prize short list. 
• On the other side of the door that leads to Hell.  >>Dead Girls. 
• "A story is whatever I say it is." >>The Dominant Animal. 
• Red Mole on the Road. >>Bus Stops on the Moon. 
• Agata's Machine. >>The Doll's Alphabet. 
• Behind The Yellow Wallpaper. >>Your roll. 
• Philosophy in the shadow of Nazism. 
• An interview with David Graeber. >>Recommended reading. 
• Politics in the consulting room. 
• Slow fire. 
• Astounding. >>Schulz's Street of Crocodiles. 

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 Issue #36

• Te Whē — a new journal of Māori Writing.
• 10 commandments from Lydia Davis. 
• Notes on notes. 
  
• What is lost is not lost. >>Lost Writings. 

• "If you are unmarried, and you love it and you meet someone else who loves it, you should definitely marry them." >>M&M.
• 'The Denial of Death' by Louise Glück (Nobel Laureate in Literature, 2020)
• Creaturely.
• Anigram — animals on the page. 
• Fable. >>Find out more. 
• The everlasting strawflower. >>handiwork.
• Love, Ecgberg. 
• A world on fire. 
• The Bard of the Highlands. >>The Living Mountain. 

• Strunk & White & Kalman. >>The song cycle. >>Your elements. 

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 Issue #35

• Offill on Weather.  >>Thomas reviews the Weather.
• "Essays should always be written neatly and legibly. Only a bad essay-writer forgets to apply himself to the clarity of both the thoughts and the letters."
• Ali Smith! >>Summer is here. 
• Poetry lessons from the advanced in age. 
• E.V.-M. >>E.V.-M.
• Horseback deliveries, anyone? 
• An archive of Modernist magazines. 
• An interview with Michael Hofmann. 
• Wealth and poverty in Victorian London. 
• Voices from the Pandemic. 
• Have you voted yet? (We have.)
• Poetry and Psychoanalysis. 
• The world's strangest books? 
• Sydney Writers' Festival podcasts. 
• The Nose!

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 Issue #34

• Chris Kraus on Francesca Woodman. 
• Too much dry bread. >>The Appointment. 
• The shame we cannot hide. 
• At the end of the world. >>Not a Novel. 
• Which Mordew character are you? >>Mordew. 
• The rebellious history of New Zealand Sign Language. 
• How the Coronavirus will reshape architecture. 
• Read this aloud.
• Radical Philosophy. 
• I am like your grammar. 
• Can A.I. replace writers? 
• In search of lost Luigi. 
• "I loved my job as a bookseller."
• George & Ben. >>George.  >>Ben. 
• Conflict in literature. 

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 Issue #33

• How a novella becomes a novel. >>Breasts and Eggs. 
• Making order of the breakdown. >>The Lying Life of Adults. 
• You are reading Ann Goldstein. 
• Get to VERB.

• Jessie Bray Sharpin on/in baths. 
• Cows are more important. >>The Discomfort of Evening. 
• Lisa Brown on The Phantom Twin.  >>Read Stella's review. 
  
What is the sound of thought? 
The kobold. 
The desk and the daring. >>Books by Gornick. 
A revolution in Latin American publishing. 
"Will I come to a miserable end?" >>Not a Novel. 
Gregory Kan, Selina Tusitala Marsh, Rachel O’Neill, and Sinead Overbye.

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 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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