Issue #171

• A new thing every day. >>A Writer’s Diary.

• “My wife is two people.” >>Laughing at the Dark.

• Studies in heresy. >>Nocturnal Apparitions.

• The revolutionary act of rewriting. >>Tangi (decolonised).

• Attend the 2023 Edinburgh International Book Festival online!

• I am what I can’t remember.

• Joyce punctuates McCarthy.

• Solidarity. >>Comrade.

• Writing as sharp as a knife. >>Ernaux.

• It’s not personal.

• Our bagels. >>The Jewish Cookbook.

• Misreading Ulysses. >>Misread it yourself.

• Talkies but no readies.

• Our film recommendation this week: Turn Every Page.

• Make Derek Jarman’s cottage your own. >>Modern Nature.

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Issue #170

• The essence of an ecosystem. >>Homesick.

• Back in Nevers. >>Owlish.

• A new life. >>Nothing Special.

• Ivor. >>Children of Paradise.

• Creative thinkers. >>A Kind of Shelter.

• Fact and fiction are irrelevant. >>The Specters of Algeria.

• Say the thing that you’re not supposed to say. >>I’m a Fan.

• Muscle memory.

• The vanishing act.

• Medium.

• Performing health. >>A Matter of Appearance.

• Pencil memory. >>Microscripts.

• Jornada de suelta.

• Twice in a lifetime.

• Our film recommendation this week: Amour.

• Is it just writer’s block, or am I a talentless troll destined for failure?

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Issue #169

• Survival kit. >>Time Shelter.

• “Cannibalism and Capitalism are the same.” >>19 Claws and a Black Bird.

• Batter my heart. >>Super-Infinite. 

• It fell like a bomb. >>Books by Ernaux.

• The life of Banine. >>Parisian Days.

• Multi-Verse. >>Books by Evangeline Riddiford Graham.

• Showing the world differently. >>Books by Eva Meijer.

• Diversity through the looking-glass.

• Between the rare oases of thought. >>Books by Thomas Bernhard.

• A coiled spring. >>Lost Cat.

• Back by lunch-time. >>A Journey Around My Room.

• Party animal. >>The complete Diaries.

• Can humans ever understand how animals think?

• I have gorgeous hair. >>The complete Epictetus.

• Our film recommendation this week: We Are Still Here.

• Nighthawks at the library.

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Issue #168

• The implacability of things. >>I, Object.

• A bewildering world. >>Shy.

• Black sand. >>The Artist.

• In search of lost time. >>Station to Station.

• The most dangerous cudgel. >>Of Cattle and Men.

• Strange to be human. >>Greek Lessons.

• “Anything worth doing transcends borders.” >>Tomb of Sand.

• Not inconsistent. >>The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi.

• Spinning an illusion.

• A weird alchemy. >>Books from Hoinford Star.

• Working backwards from criticism.

• Walser on Walser. >>Other Walsing.

• Decolonising decoloniality.

• Our film recommendation this week: A White, White Day.

• Life-changing magic.

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Issue #167

• All hail the Book of the Year. >>The Axeman’s Carnival.

• How Deborah Levy can change your life. >>August Blue.

• Readings from the International Booker Prize short list. >>Get your copies now.

• “I need to tell you this.” >>Ducks.

• Everyone is going away. >>Ten Planets.

• A garden in this wretched world. >>A Mountain to the North, A Lake to The South, Paths to the West, A River to the East.

• Birth, death, and love poems. >>Calamities! >> This Is a Story about Your Mother.

• “My life is the material.” >>Love Me Tender.

• “I don’t just want you to love me.” >>Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors.

• The house on El Estero. >>This Is Not Miami.

• If it’s not a risk, it’s nothing. >>Books by Annie Ernaux (recommended!).

• Scenes from a childhood. >>Scenes from a Childhood.

• Body as grammar.

• Language as Jenga tower.

• New movements in contemporary architecture.

• The test of innocence.

• Our film recommendation this week: Memoria.

• Kafka’s alphabet.

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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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