Issue #152

• I was always asking myself what my work was. >>>>The Longcut. 
• A Modernist's Modernist. >>All Sorts of Lives. 
• Very free and indirect. >>All Sorts of Lives. 
• Both the record of a struggle and its ultimate product. >>Fifty Sounds. 
• A premonitory vision. >>Strega. 
• Renters unite!
• The voice of Joyce. 
• Space for misunderstanding. >>The Book of Goose. >>The Unfolding. 
• Boulders have a way of making landscapes both formidable and absurd. >>Boulder. 
• Writing ourselves into existence. >>Sweat and Salt Water. 
• There's more to it than language. 
• The science of life and death. >>Frankenstein. 
• How language misses its mark. >>'The Middle Voice'. 
• Gyb, Mite, Méone, Pangur Bán.
• Little point in exploring happiness, productivity or self-understanding. >>Books by Fleur Jaeggy. 
• The paper planes of New York. 
• Rabbit holes and procrastination. >>The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. 
• Kierkegaard at the fair. 

 

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Issue #151

• The walk as a narrative structure. >>>The Longcut.
• Life, death, and commas. >>A Writer's Diary. 
• How to write a history of the arts of a small nation. >>Culture in a Small Country. 
• Justice for all. >>The Transgender Issue. 
• She already knew everything. >>Sweet Days of Discipline. 
• Hazard a guess. >>Saint Sebastian's Abyss. >>The Longcut.
• Some ancient board-games. 
• Reading to the endgame. >>Slam-dunking the madeleine. 
• A word has its own history. >>Checkout 19. 
• Fight for your right to be lazy!
• As a lute out of tune. >>The Anatomy of Melancholy. 
• The Sea Women of South Korea. >>The Island of Sea Women. 
• Clothes for people who love books. 
• Resurgence. 
• Warnings from Weimar-era films. 
• Recommended viewing: Lockwood & Co. >>Read the books!
• Trophy McTrophface? 

 

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Issue #150

• Is it my fault? >>Still Born. 
• How do we live with each other? >>Ti Amo. 
• Jon Fosse's methods. >>Septology. 
• The language of grief. >>Minor Detail. 
• Waharoa. 
• The finer points. 
• Triggered by an image. >>Tomb of Sand. 
• A century of serious difficulty. 
• Made for each other. >>Always Going Home. 
• What is embodiment? 
• The city and the writer. >>Strangers I Know. 
• The work of her hands. 
• I want to be queen. >>The Drunken Boat.
• Fevers of curiosity. 
• Friends with benefits. >>The Secret History of the Five Eyes. 
• Leaning into marginalia. 
• What lies ahead? 
• Some shorts. 
• Justice.
• Happy New Year!

 

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Issue #149

• Archive fever. >>Spadework for a Palace. 
• Welcome to the new world. >>The Visitors. 
• The urgency of existence. >>I Fear My Pain Interests You. 
• Kafka gone wild. >>What excuse do I have for having written nothing yet today? >>Diaries. 
• A playlist for Margery Kempe. >>Re-Sisters. 
• Before she can write she needs to walk. >>Books by Miriam Toews. 
• How autofiction turns the personal into the political. 
• A huge responsibility and a labour of love. >>Are Friends Electric?
• Literature out of a poisoned legacy. >>The 'Patrick Melrose' novels.
• Souvenir. 
• The nocturnal picaresque. 
• Changing our brains. 
• Allen Ginsberg's self-recording sessions. 
• A day in the life of a literary translator. 
• Superstitions about animals. 
• Translating prose into painting. 
• So, it's the OED update, obvs. 
• It is a typewriter. 
• Our film recommendation this week: Vesper. 
• The book that writes itself. >>Thomas meets the chatbot. >>Hello World!
• Katherine Mansfield misremembered. 

 

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Issue #148

• Strenuous acts of attention. >>The Longcut. 
• The archival abyss. >>Space Invaders. 
• Overlooked no more. >>Books by Tove Ditlevsen. 
• Clarity is not the protocol of literature. >>Tomb of Sand. 
• "Even if a woman sat at a loom, it did not mean she must weave a cosmogony or clothes to cover the emptiness underneath.” >>Abécédaire.
• A language of nowhere. >>Invasion of the Spirit People. 
• Your deepest insecurities. >>Acting Class. 
• What Annie Ernaux owes to memory. >>Books by Ernaux. 
• The tempo of life. >>'A Living Autobiography'. 
• Kafka's diaries, 1911. >>The diaries. 
• 1000 manuscripts. 
• Sounding the Sumburgh foghorn. >>The Foghorn's Lament. 
• Texts in The Rings of Saturn. >>The Rings of Saturn. 
• Transliteration vs translation in te reo Māori.
• Read your way through Tokyo. 
• All that women hold. >>Women Holding Things. 
• Only style survives. 
• The intersections of poetry and medicine. 
• "It’s probably the end of the world, but it might also be the beginning of a new one."
• Autochromes from the Te Papa collection. 
• Our film recommendation this week: True Things. 
• Frozen Charlottes. 

 

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Issue #147

• A box built in the abyss. >>Spadework for a Palace. >>A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East. 
• Not a traditional ghost story. >>The Seven Moons of Maadi Almeida.
• What comes after we abolish borders? >>Against Borders. 
• Returns. >>Books by Annie Ernaux. 
• Cage in search of a bird. >>Aphorisms. 
• The sound and the story. 
• The misunderstood voice. >>You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone. 
• On not having a career. >>The Last Days of Roger Federer. 
• Photographer Rosaline Frank. >>Belated Accolades. 
• He died a hero and was forgotten. >>Blood on the River. 
• A.I. v. the jawbone. >>Cain's Jawbone. 
• What makes writing valuable? 
• Should we care what Hegel really thought of art? 
• The Museum of Wonky English. 
• The pleasures of restoring fountain pens. 
• Tales from the North. 
• Some of the best are good. 
• She who wrote. 
• What to expect when your're expecting to publish your book. 
• Whose desk is it anyway? 
• Like falling down 47 flights of stairs. 

 

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Issue #146

• Meaning comes later. >>Saint Sebastian's Abyss. 
• A few things still need to be said about the world. >>Awake. 
• Between domesticity and creativity. >>Books by Ernaux. 
• Language, destroyer of worlds. >>The Passenger. 
• Misreading Ulysses. 
• The typography of change. 
• Very sad but very urgent. >>Some books translated by Emma Ramadan. 
• The geometry of logic. 
• The remnants of industry.
• The oldest sentence written in the first alphabet. 
• The Short Story Challenge. 
• The notorious comb sisters. 
• Discovery zone. 
• Meow! 
• Out of print.

 

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Issue #145

• Reports from the interior. >>Strangers to Ourselves. 
• Shaped by tragedy. >>The Book of Goose. 
• Of blood and herbs. >>Strega. 
• The houses that women built. >>Making Space. 
• Does it have to be that way?  >>Either/Or.
• An antidote to the boring moralism of contemporary writing. >>Getting Lost.  
• Plotted novels and psychological immersion. >>Birnam Wood. 
• Wastepaper basket as writing utensil. >>How to Start Writing (and When to Stop). 
• Smeared. >>The Easy Life. 
• Curious creations. >>Machines in the Head. 
• In praise of the worker-owned company. 
• Insight and attention. 
• Back to life. 
• Language and the natural world. >>Braiding Sweetgrass. 
• How old was Eadburg? 
• Can a machine learn to write for the New Yorker? 
• Staying up all night to write a story. >>Lean Fall Stand. 
• On your wish list!
• Monopoly (Foucault edition).

 

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Issue #144

• A woman's life could at any point be turned into a crime scene. >>Strega. 
• Walking. >>Panthers and the Museum of Fire. 
• The recipe. >>Small Fires. 
• The architecture of the book. >>Book Manifest. 
• The breath of life. >>Pure Colour. 
• Endangered alphabets. >>One and Everything. 
• The return home. >>Te Motunui Epa. 
• A hidden history. >>Making Space. 
• Brother. >>Dark Neighbourhood. 
• Loved to death. 
• The circuitous sublime. >>Thomas reviews some books by Fleur Jaeggy. 
• New ways to write about your life. >>Books by Annie Ernaux. 
• A case for the weird voice. >>Liberation Day. 
• Land of fire, ice and stories. 
• How Nietzsche came in from the cold. 
• Meet the Bookerworm. 
• Dazzling and didactic. 
• Virtues of the antilibrary. 
• A.I. on the rules of human  language.
• Our film recommendation this week: I'm Your Man. 
• Shitty boyfriends of Western literature.

 

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Issue #143

• The divorce of women's hands. >>Strega.
• Hello world! (5 parts). >>Thomas chats with Alice. 
• Attuned to the frequency of madness. >>Where I End. 
• Burning originality. >>Super-Infinite. 
• The intoxicated years. >>Our Share of Night. 
• A masterclass in writing. >>Dislocations. 
• Peepholes into private lives. >>Seven Empty Houses. 
• The mayor the town tried to forget. >>Downfall. 
• Jon Fosse's search for peace. >>Septology. 
• If something like oneself exists. >>Swanfolk. 
• She worked in a terrified state. >>Life? Or theatre?
• Double negative. >>Black and Female. 
• Memories like trip-wires. >>Somebody Loves You. 
• Off-brand. >>Nocilla Trilogy. 
• Paintings in Proust. >>The Way by Swann's. 
• Quick! Hide! >>Gotcha!
• Our film recommendation this week: The Last Suit. 
• The Fiske Reading Machine. 

 

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Issue #142

• Not a closed book. >>Diego Garcia.
• The redemption of the collective past in the infinite present. >>The Years. 
• Bewitched. >>Needles and Plastic. 
• Everyday wonders. >>The Golden Mole.
• What is a guy for? >>Liberation Day. 
• A shift in identity. >>Mokorua. 
• Everything is different! >>Seven Empty Houses. 
• Brood meridian. >>The Passenger. 
• The Gaylene Preston Collection. >>Gaylene's Take. 
• Interview with Raja Shehadeh. >>We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I. 
• Spinster class. >>The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym.
• Engine, instrument and index. >>The Trees. 
• Translating love and grief. >>Ti Amo. 
• "I don't think you can be in the sentence if you've already decided where you need to be." >>Small Things Like These. 
• New ways to tread the same ground. >>Seven Steeples. 
• A perfect novel. >>All Our Yesterdays. 
• Virginia Woolf's consciousness of reality. 
• You'll never fly alone. 
• Our film recommendation this week: Border. 
• Don't lick!

 

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Issue #141

• Is death necessary to a ghost story? >>The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. 
• A world between languages. >>Scattered All Over the Earth. 
• A prism of perspectives. >>Diego Garcia. 
• The return of the repressed. >>My Phantoms. 
• "There's a fire under me." >>The Axeman's Carnival. 
• The unmentioned interruption. >>99 Interruptions. 
• Machine learning at its best. 
• They was published. >>They. 
• A guide to good home cooking. >>The Homemade Table. 
• Maps are mirrors of the psyche. 
• The healing power of poetry. >>The Poetry Pharmacy. 
• The Tougaloo Nine.
• Sixteenth century sex. >>Super-Infinite. 
• Remember to recycle. 
• Our film recommendation this week: The Dark Horse. 
• The infinite conversation. 

 

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