Issue #166

• Ambivalence and obligation. >>Mothercare.

• An ode to the aunties. >>The Artist.

• IBP trivia quiz. >>Read the short list.

• Translating a whale. >>Whale.

• Talking and walking. >>Panthers and the Museum of Fire.

• The eerie side of childbirth. >>The Employees.

• Me, myself and A.I.

• Not brainstorming. >>Lapvona.

• One arm full of groceries. >>Crying in H-Mart.

• Maddening language.

• Søren Kierkegaard’s struggle with himself. >>Make the struggle yours.

• Old experiments.

• Walter Benjamin’s legacy. >>One-Way Street.

• First ever Alice.

• Our film recommendation this week: Woodenhead.

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Issue #165

• The dead silence of goods. >>Look at the Lights, My Love.

• Not just for the fangirls. >>All Sorts of Lives.

• The fiction round table. >>The short-listed books.

• Slow literature. >>Wall.

• Silence and solitude. >>Greek Lessons.

• The pace of productivity. >>Of Cattle and Men.

• Out on the shelves.

• Seeing through it all. >>Seven Steeples.

• Rebel vocabulary. >>Books by Ágota Kristóf.

• Tearing through the books. >>The books to tear through.

• Mannerisms. >>Books by Brian Dillon.

• The reader conscious of the reading. >>Checkout 19.

• On the waterfront (and beyond). >>Comrade.

• Self-governing. >>Novels in Three Lines.

• How did chess pieces get their names? >>Choose a chess book.

• Inspiring the short list.

• International Cycling Authors.

• Propaganda of the deed. >>Anarchism and Other Essays.

• The 2023 Manifesto for Literary Translation.

• Time of water.

• Our film recommendation this week: Aftersun.

• Socrates on Speed.

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Issue #164

• The avarice of humans. >>I, Object.

• A succession of fictions. >>Standing Heavy.

• Manipulation, madness and marijuana. >>Aljce in Therapyland.

• Astonishing. >>The Doloriad.

• “I couldn’t bear fiction.” >>Greek Lessons.

• Alone together. >>Look at the Lights, My Love.

• Modes of solitude. >>Pond.

• How enlightened were the pirates of Madagascar? >>The Real Libertalia. 

• The fear of co-governance. >>The Fate of the Land.

• It came like a wave. >>May the Tigris Grieve for You.

• Grasping Nettel. >>Still Born.

• A Profusion of Poets. >>Chilean Poet.

• The groups. >>Participation.

• Five parts; five jackets. >>Chicanes.

• The evolution of the penguin.

• Les enfants terribles. >>Books by Anne Garréta.

• Between pleasure and pain. >>Books by Oloixarac.

• How Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas got to Heaven.

• Sartorial misdirection.

• Singing for your supper. >>The Grater Good.

• A singular evolvement of thought in sleep.

• Unstill Life with Cat.

• Remembering Roy Gold, who was not excessively interested in books.

• Our film recommendation this week: Three Minutes: A lengthening.

• My student loans would prefer me dead.

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Issue #163

• How language misses its mark. >>Greek Lessons.

• The town that went insane. >>Cursed Bread.

• New sounds on the page. >>Dark Neighbourhood.

• From other angles. >>Nothing Special.

• The relationship between mother and child is a never-ending story. >>Is Mother Dead.

• The myth of colonisation. >>The West.

• Sovereignty of imagination. >>Praiseworthy.

• What does it mean for things to be connected even if they are nothing like one another? >>Affinities.

• The city is a body; you are a group of apes. >>A Journal of the Plague Year.

• The private life of a cat.

• The reader is the only place that matters.

• How mathematicians birthed a form of literature. >>The Adventure of Form.

• Occupational hazards. >>Fundamental principles.

• Our film recommendation this week: Family Life.

• 21st century wellness trends that were also hardships that Jane Eyre suffered at Lowood School.

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Issue #162

• Absolute horror at the political present. >>Shy.

• Risk! Risk anything! >>All Sorts of Lives.

• That’s a sheep. >>Nothing Special.

• A key period. >>The Fate of the Land.

• Consider the publisher. >>Dinner with Joseph Johnson.

• You are going to read this. >>The Premonitions Bureau.

• Badly behaved biographies.

• 20 under 40.

• Reading translated fiction makes you younger and smarter.

• The men with the pink triangle. >>The book.

• Writing the Nakba in Hebrew. >>Arabesques.

• Books and resistance.

• A dusty handrail on the track.

• Edward Gorey’s toys. >>Some Edward Gorey books.

• Mumchance, anyone?

• An interview with no questions.

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Issue #161

• A radical act. >>How To Do Nothing.

• In love with her characters. >>Boulder.

• The galaxies within. >>Solenoid.

• The one true genius of NZ writing. >>Books by or about KM.

• A passion for living in the present. >>Tsushima. >>Ernaux.

• To whom does Bruno Schulz’s art belong? >>Read Bruno Schulz.

• Reading Duras. >>Read Duras.

• Second-hand stories.

• An illustrated guide to the spectacle. >>The Society of the Spectacle.

• Dreams under confinement.

• A queer list.

• The sound of the future.

• A book of stone.

• An unlikely lunch.

• Our film recommendation this week: Compartment No. 6

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Issue #160

• Which book to read first? >>The International Booker list. 
• The voice that cannot be controlled. >>Chicanes. 
• Part of the world. >>Whale. 
• At the limits of language. >>Ten Planets. 
• A series of heavens. >>Words by and about K.M. 
• Places don't remember what they are. >>When We Were Birds. 
• Queer magic and queerevolutions. 
• My ugly bathroom. 
• Diseases incidental to literary and sedentary persons. 
• Shelf life. 
• The natural language of the hand. 
• Exit strategies. 
• Our film recommendation this week: Accident. 
• Fantasia in G Minor. 

 

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Issue #159

• Here and nowhere else. >>The Birthday Party. 
• "...I am sure of it." >>Deranged As I Am. 
• A green notebook. >>Why Women Grow, 
• First, pick your acorn. >>The short lists. 
• Sweeping away the dust that piles up. >>Whale. 
• A little bit of getting used to. >>Bordering on Miraculous. 
• A laser beam on her head. >>Books by Mary Gaitskill. 
• An argument for justice. >>The Transgender Issue. 
• Translation anxiety. >>The Storyteller. 
• Chaos bewitched. >>Moby-Dick. 
• In perpetual motion. >>Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. 
• On her radar. >>Harrow. >>The Story of Art (Without Men). 
• A book of waves and ripples. 
• Idlers of the world, unite! >>The Right To Be Lazy. 
• Read your way through Edinburgh. 
• Our film recommendation this week: Shoplifters. 
• Eating his words. >>Entangled Life. 

 

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Issue #158

• A search for women gardeners. >>Why Women Grow. 
• Conscious of everything. >>All Sorts of Lives. 
• The novelist watching us work. >>Eastbound. 
• Five tables in a house. >>Boulder. >>When I Sing, Mountains Dance. 
• Loopholes. >>Keeping the House. 
• Description of a struggle. >>The Diaries of Franz Kafka. 
• First, catch your starling. 
• Like moving through a country. >>In Memory of Memory. 
• I am a publishing assistant. 
• Words from the long white cloud. 
• Down and out in Paris with Rainer Maria Rilke. >>The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. 
• Visuality and literacy. 
• Will we see it coming?
• The law of suggestion. 
• The problem with stative verbs. 
• Then, crochet your halibut. 
• Pinter as Krapp. 
• No worries if not!

 

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Issue #157

• The eye of the beholder. >>Affinities. 
• A real trip. >>Ten Planets. 
• Waking the tūpuna. >>Te Motunui Epa. 
• It never snows in Nevers. >>Owlish. 
• An Emergency reading list. >>Emergency. 
• How Keri Hulme changed the way we read. >>The Bone People. 
• How does the visual operate in cinema, as opposed to literature? >>Happening (the book). >>Happening (the film). 
• Special pleading for an 'I'. >>Your Duck Is My Duck. 
• On loss an storytelling. >>Old Babes in the Wood. 
• What does Alain Badiou mean by 'antiphilosophy'? >>Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy. 
• Writers' round table on Japan. 
• Narratives of magnitude. 
• A Page of Madness. 

 

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Issue #156

• Endless trances. >>Tomb of Sand. 
• "I felt immortal." >>Birnam Wood. 
• Eric Hazan's Paris. >>Paris in Turmoil. 
• Broken Journey. 
• A memoirist who mistrusts her own memories. >>Books by Annie Ernaux. 
• Hurrah for Charco Press! >>We have many Charco Press titles in stock.
• Meeting minds. >>Eve Bites Back. 
• Exploding a Pākehā Myth. >>Privilege in Perpetuity. 
• Responsibility, guilt, participation, complicity. >>In Memory of Memory. 
• A cake full of knives. >>Oldladyvoice. 
• Tantrum. >>Thomas reviews The Weak Spot. 
• The worlds of Italo Calvino. >>The books of Italo Calvino. 
• 20,000 NZ books. 
• How the Victorians created the modern English novel. 
• A questionable business. 
• Things that have died in the pool. 

 

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Issue #155

• Joy Williams does not write for humanity. >>Harrow. 
• Best first books. 
• Uncharted territory. >>Needles and Plastic. 
• Gorey ends. >>The Gashlycrumb Tinies. 
• Isolation, solitude, loneliness, and the writing of long-form fiction. 
• Elizabeth Hardwick's style. >>Read it yourself. 
• Should I ask my question at the literary event? 
• The future of literary criticism.
• Various hellfires. >>I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole. 
• The animated mouth. 
• Significantly undigested. 
• Fight for your right to be lazy. 
• Samuel Beckett, rider. 

 

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