Issue #92

• Good girls write memoirs; bad girls make art. >>What I Learned at Art School. 
• Something is rotten. >>The Dolls. 
• More snakes than ladders. >>Too Much Money. 
• What a goal! >>Sterling Karat Gold. 
• Reality according to Tom McCarthy. >>The Making of Incarnation. 
• In praise of the meander. 
• The tangled wisdom of the human throat. >>The Unseen Body. 
• Rustle rustle rustle. >>The Tiny Woman's Coat. 
• The myth of the cast-iron pan. 
• Ten commandments for a healthy democracy. 
• Wellington mapped through its books. 
• The meaninglessness of meaning. >>A little Barthes. 
• Современная Архитектура.
• Archaeology.
• Calligrammes. 
• How women created new language. 
• Blanked verse. >>Make Blackout Poetry. 

 

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Issue #91

• Alternative routes. >>No. 91/92. >>Find out more. 
• In a choked state of mind. >>The Dolls. 
• "I've always been old at heart." >>The Fran Lebowitz Reader. 
• Unbecoming women. >>A Girl's Story. 
• A page pounded clean. >>The Dominant Animal. 
• Motherhood made her a literal dog. >>Nightbitch. 
• A survivor's guide to revision. 
• Blending research and imagination in historical fiction. >>Matrix. 
• The translator she never wanted to be. 
• Are you punctuated?
• Our next bookshop. 
• All about Basket. 
• How cats crept in. 
• Spot treatment. 

 

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Issue #90

• See what happens if you say yes. >>The Very Nice Box. 
• Lying next to a cute li‘l spud. >>"There is nothing funnier than depression."
• Oblique elementary meanness. >>Nioque of Early-Spring. 
• The Marxist and the Messiah. >>The Benjamin Files.
• A lick of night. >>Grief is the Thing with Feathers. 
• Making a cover. >>Tomine. 
• He's a poet and the FBI know it. 
• Poet, exile, and enfant terrible. >>Books by Boris Poplavsky. 
• Earlier than you thought. 
• Car hatred. 
• Skinning a cat. 
• Cooking with Mary Shelley. 

 

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Issue #89

• The slaughterhouse at the heart of culture. >>Great Works. 
• The safe zone. >>Small Bodies of Water. 
• What's art got to do with it? >>Things I Learned at Art School. 
• Inspirations revealed. >>The six. 
• Learning to write from life. >>How to Start Writing (and When to Stop). 
• The palimpsest sensation. >>Exteriors. 
• Fleur Jaeggy thinks nothing of herself. >>Thomas reviews several of her books. 
• The lies of history / How nature fights back. >>The Nutmeg's Curse. 
• Marguerite Duras, internet essayist? >>Me. 
• What has and hasn't changed. >>The Fortune Men. 
• Ingeborg Bachmann on the first person narrator. >>Malina. 
• Deborah Levy meets Magda Cârneci. >>Real Estate. >>FEM. 
• Retelling the hare. >>The Hare with the Amber Eyes. 
• Zombie fodder. 
• On the historical stigmatisation and persistent vilification of epilepsy in literature. 
• Edible, suspect, and poisonous. 
• This is the house that Edward owned. >>Books by Edward Gorey. 

 

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Issue #88

• Ensnaring Sebald. >>Speak, Silence. 
• Uncomfortable questions about fiction. >>When We Cease to Understand the World. 
• "She reminds me of somebody. But who?" >>The Woman in the Purple Skirt. 

• Reconnect with Richard Powers. >>Bewilderment. 

• On finding stories everywhere. >> Me. 

• A single design for a trilogy. >>Three Novels by Yuri Herrera. 
• "Literature is the sudden disintegration of the verbal fabric of everyday life." Discuss. 
• As natural as walking. >>Walking the Invisible. 
• Selling the Holocaust. >>Plunder. 

• “I feel suspicious about writers who claim to tell the whole truth about themselves, about life, or about the world." >>Calvino. 
• Scenes from the life of Roz Chast. >>You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time. 
• Commie comics.
• Where poetry still matters. 

 

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Issue #87

• Uplifted from the mind of a dreamer. >>The Lobster's Tale. 
• It won't make the vase whole again. >>Books by Tove Ditlevsen. 
• How a woman becomes a piece of furniture. >>Empty Wardrobes. 
• The books that raised the booksellers. 
• A riot in Nelson. >>Interesting!
• Perec's cat. >>Gentle and Fierce. 
• Jewish lives ransacked for fiction? >> Speak, Silence. 
• Oh whistle and. >>English Magic. 
• Take a look inside the suitcase. >>Inside the Suitcase.
• Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the 2021 Nobel prize in literature. >>Laureate's books. 
• Refreshing ways to talk about buildings. >>Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances. 

• "I read the book and I knew what I wanted to do." >>A few of the many books by Adam Phillips. 
• Babar: model or integration or crumbling myth? >>Elephant diaspora. 

• Selling the Holocaust. >>Plunder. 
• The persistence of litmags. 
• The Proustian grail. 
• A late-phase reflection on peak oil. 

 

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Issue #86

• Mourning exercise. >>The Water Statues. 
• "We have to do it together." >>Imagining Decolonisation. 
• On Tove Ditlevsen and the tradition of women writing autofiction. >>'The Copenhagen Trilogy'. 
  
• OTK. >>Shelf Love. 
• The net and the fence. >>Under the Dome. 
• How Michel Foucault got neoliberalism so wrong. >>The Last Man Takes LSD. 
• An experiment in limits. >>Long Players. 
• Speculative evolution. >>On the Origin of Species. 

• How a woman becomes a piece of furniture. >>Empty Wardrobes. 
• Smith in love. >>1984: The graphic novel. 
• 36 metaphors for translation. 

• Fred Moten's radical critique of the present. 

• The lost world of the London coffeehouse. 

• Anna H. loses her ability to read. 
• Russia's most mysterious modern writer. >>Books by Victor Pelevin. 
• Uncanny. 
• Strange sentences. 
• The very first Bechdel Test. 
• What pedestrians look like in Europe. 

 

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Issue #85

• Losing control of the hours. >>The Water Statues. 
  
• On keeping a notes app. >>Lonely Asian Woman. 
• About the pink jumpsuit. >>Short fictions, tall truths. 
• Bad genre. >>Books by Annie Ernaux. 
• Writing Lessons from War and Peace. >>85 Days. 
• "Emma, Rodrigo, and I followed in the car." >>The Wrong End of the Telescope. 
• Melani Anae on The Platform. >>Books about the Polynesian Panthers. 
• Elena Ferrante 'talks' with Marina Abramovic. 
• An intimate approach to writing narrative structure. 
• The mistake no dialogue writer should ever make. 
• The canonisation of Derek Jarman. >>Modern Nature. 
• Don't call it writers' block. 
• Author as lepidopterist. 
• A brief history of books on wheels. 
• Seven things you learn as a bookseller. 
• First we whistled. 
• The art of the lock-down book recommendation. 
• Soviet visuals. >>Soviet Visuals!

• No laughing matter. 

 

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Issue #84

• Winning the game you didn't even want to play. >>Beautiful World, Where Are You. 
• Urban landscapes and scattered selves. >>Books by Annie Ernaux. 
• Civilisation vs. culture. >>The Magician. 
• Unsettling powers. >>Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch. 
• A growing sense of purpose. >>The Well-Gardened Mind. 
• 40 years of Flying Nun. >>Hellzapoppin!
• Godot in the Delta Era. >>Waiting for normal. >>Endgame in isolation. 
• Autotheory and autofiction. 
• The dawn of machine writing.
• The feminist vision of Friedrich Engels. 
• Middlemarch: a novel of contagion. >>Isolate and read. 
• Where to start with Krasznahorkai. >>Maybe here. 
• Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. 
• On portals, poems, and collage. 
• What sort of literary ghost are you? 
  
  

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Issue #83

• Eccentric Orbits. >>Sentient dust. >>An ancient diamond. 
  
• The beauty of The House. >>Piranesi. 
• A living autobiography. >>Real Estate. 

• Real life. >>Night As It Falls. 
• "I still don't know where a book comes from." >>They came from somewhere!
• "We need to rethink the category of woman." >>Gender Trouble. 
• No-one likes blue. >>Ill Feelings. 
• A language of circles. 
• Tove Jansson illustrates The Hobbit. 
• Find your address on Pangaea. 
• Racism in the Dewey Decimal System? 
• Water is meaningless without ships. 
• Svetlana Alexievich on Belarus. >>Books by the laureate.
• Join the Maori Language Moment (12 PM, Tuesday 14th).

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Issue #82

• A woman who wouldn't go placidly. >>Things I Learned at Art School. 
• The long swoon of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. >>Two-Way Mirror. 
• Dread, collapse, relief. >>Books by Brian Dillon. 
• A very particular risk. 
• A manifesto for uncertain times. >>Poetics of Work. 
• Once Dostoyevsky's stenographer. >>Summer in Baden-Baden. >>The Gambler Wife. 
• Dreams in lock-down. 
• One French city. >>One Lydia Davis. 
• Meet Maria Turtschaninoff. >>'Visit 'The Red Abbey'. 
• Modes of violence. >>Hurricane Season. 
• Forgetting my first language. 
• Authors who started out as booksellers (no mention of the booksellers who started out as authors). 
• Walking with Simone de Beauvoir. 
• Murakami stories made into short films. >>Murakami books. 
• Selling books that aren't meant to be saleable. 
• "I sometimes wonder why I translate."
• Water is meaningless without ships. 
• Ten Chinese bookshops. 
• Recipes from The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook. 

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Issue #81

When Nobody Was Looking. >>Justice and Race. 

Home Truths. >>Read our reviews of Second Place. 

Leaking bodies. >>Adorable. 

The personal at arm's length. >>The Limits of My Language. 

Propped up by structures that could collapse at any moment. >>Sevastopol. 

The stream of consciousness is more like a whirlpool. >>Loop. 

Pen portraits. >>Read Thomas's review of The Death of Francis Bacon.

Something going on in Spanish. >>The best!

“It is a mistake to view Arabic novels as ethnographic documents of their authors’ countries." >>Celestial Bodies. 

The responsibilities and pleasures of translation. 

Translation as visiting the past. 

Tai Moana, Tai Tangata. 

New York's legendary literary hang-outs. 

The future was better protected than the past. 

Can you solve it? 

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