Issue #47Each pain is relevant, meaningful. >>Thomas reviews Minor Detail. El último Lobo. >>The Last Wolf / Herman. Faith. >>Earthlings. The fate of les bouquinistes.Recommended recommended reading. Tergenev, liberator. Nosey, nosey!Useful sophistry. Terrible writing advice. Parasites!Brought to you by VOLUME: The space for books VOLUME Books5 January 2021
Issue #46The Caspian Tiger. >>An Inventory of Losses. The Unspoken Corners. >>Divorcing. Palaces for all. The custard factory. >>The Doll's Alphabet. Same Same But Different. What we know of Sappho. The irreparable, the inconsolable. >>Read Nathalie Léger!What makes a Penguin Classic? Books by the foot. Indie publishers in the UK. Book cover wars. What does 'bumper' mean, exactly? Brought to you by VOLUME: The space for books VOLUME Books29 December 2020
Issue #45This Lispectorian century. >>Read Clarice. Te Kai a te Rangatira. >>The book. A bicycling bookseller. Childhood, youth, and dependency. >>Your childhood, youth, and dependency. A new story by Rachel Kushner. >>Also by Rachel Kushner. A damp Saturday afternoon in Westport. The man who saw through himself. >>The rules of the game. The shadows beneath the shadows. The many tongues of Olga Tokarczuk. On visiting a dead writer's house. To medicine via Paradise. What's Gaelic for app?Talia Marshall's lucky, unlucky book. Reading as resistance. Daytrips for waxworks. Brought to you by VOLUME: The space for books VOLUME Books14 December 2020
Issue #44Why literature loves lists. >>Dillonism. The fires of occupation. >>Your copy of Te Ahi Kā. Every cripple has his own way of walking. >>Ann Quin. Beowulf lives. A depth charge for the hip pocket. >>Get your texts. Everything stops for the baby. >>The Swimmers.Crip the lit. >>Pick up a free copy of Here We Are Read Us from the counter. Some American book covers. New from John Donne. Literary paper dolls. She read too much. Ivor Cutler interviews himself. Brought to you by VOLUME: The space for books VOLUME Books7 December 2020
Issue #43Do we still need speech marks?On bookkeeping. >>Not a Novel. Poetry and neuroscience. Meat country. A creature in my own right. >>Earthlings. What a book cover can do. Extract of Nightingale. >>The rest.Alan Moore on William Blake. Félix Fénéon. >>Novels in 3 lines. Moveable/movable type. A free chess manual. To catch a Büchermarder.Brought to you by VOLUME: The space for books VOLUME Books30 November 2020
Issue #42The Decameron Project. >>The wrappable version. On water. On translating A Musical Offering. >>Recommended reading. An interview with Sarah Manguso. >>Books!How Paul Celan reconceived language. >>Read Paul Celan. José Saramago! Good sentences are why we read. The language police. No walk is ever wasted. Animated Barthes.Is there a culture war and can it be won? We all now exist as avatars. >>Zed.We are built to forget. Altered books. Brought to you by VOLUME: The space for books VOLUME Books23 November 2020
Issue #41Brave New World vs. Nineteen Eight-Four. >>Huxley vs. Orwell. Te Rauparaha's migration. >>Tamihana's memoir of his father. The virtues of the semicolon. Understanding our stories. Against the immensity of things. >>Some books by Kobo Abe. To die one's own death. How did the passive voice get such a bad name? Notes on the diagram. On gimmicks. In praise of the difficult. Power, revolution and futurity. >>Some books by Imre Kertész.In Mexico City. U break it we fix it. Brought to you by VOLUME: The space for books VOLUME Books16 November 2020
Issue #40Citational fiction and the literary supercut. "I married a stranger to be left alone." >>Earthlings. Why Claire Messud writes. >>Kant's Little East Prussian Head. When waking begins. When raving was radical. >>Read Rave. A poem by Jorie Graham. Symbolically authentic non-Euclidian adventures in mountain climbing. >>Mount Analogue. Interesting times (Camus).Write a novel in a month. Making up for lost time.A story by Adania Shibli. >>Read Thomas's review of Minor Detail. Lake stories. Martin Edmond on Colin McCahon. >>Endless Yet Never. The cinematography that changed cinema. Andrew O'Hagan, 1986. >>2020. Brought to you by VOLUME: The space for books VOLUME Books9 November 2020
Issue #39People 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. Brought to you by VOLUME: The space for books VOLUME Books2 November 2020
Issue #38Suppose 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. Brought to you by VOLUME: The space for books VOLUME Books27 October 2020
Issue #37A 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. Brought to you by VOLUME: The space for books VOLUME Books19 October 2020
Issue #36Te 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. Brought to you by VOLUME: The space for books VOLUME Books13 October 2020