Issue #56

• Bomb under the table. >>Klara and the Sun. 
• "Indifference is a contemplative state." >>Poetics of Work. 
• Hermione Lee on Tom Stoppard. >>Read the rest of the book. 

• Was Duras directing her translators? >>Me, And other writings. 
• Embracing freaky futures. >>Dwelling in the Margins. 
• While I was working. >>An Inventory of Losses. 
• A melancholy Dane (with scissors). 
• What is the language of pain? >>Read Anne Boyer. 
• A miner is approached. 
• An interview with Elizabeth Hardwick. >>Recommended reading. 
• Why Melville House? 
• Busy fingers. 

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 Issue #55

• "Shorter than my other short books." >>The Death of Francis Bacon. 
• An old woman dares you to ignore her. >>Bina. 
• Contesting the limelight. >>Ngā Kete Mātauranga.

• Samuel Beckett's mute interview (1969). 
• The fight in us. >>The Adventures of China Iron.
• On the automatic translation of automatic writing. >>The Magnetic Fields. 
• Your score will be higher than you expect. 
• "Our great post-punk novelist." >>The Barker. 
• "I began the day..." >>Calamities reviewed. 
• 100 books. 
• Every slightest pebble. >>The poems of Anna Akhmatova. 

• Not exactly missing or not missing Lisbon. 
• 3,900 pages of Paul Klee’s notebooks.
• Discover a new city through books. 

• It's a competition, apparently. 

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 Issue #54

• Call me Ishmael. >>Use the phonebook. 
• Na dem dey hunt whales. 
• "The summer I turned 22 I went mad." >>Bus Stops on the Moon. 
• Cats are everywhere in her work. >>Lost Cat.

• Early morning writing in his head. >>Tranquillity and Ruin. 
• The breaking-up of the ice. >>The Weak Spot. 
• Miss Skippit. >>Analogous patisseries. 
• Two kinds of philosopher. 
• Milkweed. 
• How to Gray your day. >>Gray volumes. 
• Dante: our medieval contemporary. >>Take your pick. 
• "It’s very hard to review one’s past without cheating a little."

• Comma shop. 
•  Stopping the void. 
• Fernando Pessoa in our time.  >>Thomas reads The Book of Disquiet. 
• What to read. 
• Literally!

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 Issue #53

• "I hate Nadia beyond reason." >>The Lying Life of Adults. 
• Knox in box. >>The Absolute Book. 
• The VUP sampler! >>Your books are waiting for you. 
• Why you aren't famous. 
• Art monsters, humour and feminism. >>Jenny Offill. >>Chris Kraus.  
• "Life wouldn’t be worth living if I stopped writing." >>Gornickiana. 
• Joy Williams—Has the writer gone blind? >>Read Joy Williams. 
• On metaphor in Persian poetry. 
• How Granta became global. >>Read Granta. 
• No mind's eye. 
• "Kathy Acker is all the Kathies she ever was now." >>Some books. 
• A phrase or two in Rotwelsch. 

• A useful device. 

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 Issue #52

• Good writing habits.  >>Others of Lydia Davis's Essays. 
• The body, the state, and the border. >>Books by Cristina Rivera Garza. 
• In Kafka's Prague. 
• On Wordsworth's spectacles. 
• By the river. >>Books by Esther Kinsky. 
• How to draw literary cartoons. 
• James Joyce reads Ulysses. >>You read Ulysses. 
• The indie press experience. 

• Derrida vs. "Derrida"; Foucault vs. "Foucault".
• "Between the two parts there is an intermission of 100000 years."
• ( ), { }, [ ], and < >.

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 Issue #51

• The abyss echoes back. >>An Inventory of Losses. 
• A dispatch from the kingdom of chronic illness. >>Pranesi. 
• How to read a book. 
• The real thing. >>Long Live the Post Horn!
• Minor masterpiece of naive relic? >>Trout fishing, &c. 
• Embracing imperfection. 
• 'No' is not a word like any other. 

• More and more old book illustrations. 
• Looking forward. 
• Words on two wheels. 
• Do political revolutions spark literary revolutions? 
• A translator's diary. 

• Derek Walcott!

• Hope.
• A restoration. 
• On writing Nora Joyce. >>Written!
• Chess composing. 

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 Issue #50

• Portal to a new world. >>Azadi. 
• The world wakes up, enlarged. >>The Math Campers. 
• The Rathbones Folio Prize (rather-)Long List. >>Awaiting your orders. 
• Too much information. >>Books by Thomasin Sleigh. 
• How the internet is transforming the novel. 
• On loneliness and creativity. 
  
• On the limits of literary automation. 
• Your ticket to the Inferno. 
• The year of grinding teeth. 
• Second-most-spoken languages of the world. 

• The Queen's argot. 

• On translating Paul Celan.  >>Reading Paul Celan. 

• "You can't breathe life into absence."
• Why aren't there more triangular books? 
  

• Napoleon's Kindle. 

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 Issue #49

• We create who we are. >>To Be a Man. 
• Literary promiscuity in the digital age. 
• The Hard Crowd. >>Books by Rachel Kusher. 
• Animalinside. >>Krasznahorkai on your shelf. 
• Two stories by Kate Zambreno. >>Screen Tests. 
• Maxine Groffsky on the art of editing. 
• "It's not Jung's, it's mine." >>Ursula K. Le Guin. 
• Following Sebald through London's East End. >>As in Austerlitz. 
• Worth restoring? 
• Grace Paley! >>Written and collected. 
• Spot the book. 
• An archaeological memo. 

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 Issue #48

• "I don't miss the world as much as, perhaps, I should." >>>What's the Weather?
• Inside the mind of a writer.
• "Capitalist naturalism." >>Hurricane Season. 
• Looking for Paris’s old Left Bank in the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir.
• Ulysses by the Numbers. 
• Teaching us wonder. 
• What writers and editors do. 
• How to read after becoming a parent. 
• Looking forward to 2021? 
• Why we keep waiting for Godot. 
• Can you make the middle distance? 
• Dial-a-Poem. 

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 Issue #47

• Each 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!

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 Issue #46

• The 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? 

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 Issue #45

• This 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. 

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