Issue #176

• Disappearing. >>The Words for Her.

• Big eyes, large ears. >>Look! Said the Little Girl.

• A teacher’s masterclass in manipulation: >>Pet.

• Unruly bodies. >>Art Monsters.

• Cruelty and survival. >>Cousins.

• A homemade avant garde of one. >>Read Thomas’s reviews of some books by Murnane.

• Puffballs and eyelash cups. >>Fungi of Aotearoa.

• Undercurrent.

• Nothing happens gradually. >>The Brothers Karamazov.

• Mavericks.

• Writers where they work.

• Our film recommendation this week: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.

• Erasing Proust.

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Issue #175

• Always from somewhere else. >>Audition.

• Oceanic space. >>Na Viro.

• Death-defying. >>I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home.

• Clinging will only tire one’s wings. >>Collected Works.

• Harnessing her ignorance. >>Porn: An oral history.

• Safeguarding democracy. >>A Survival Guide.

• Pages on fire. >>Solenoid.

• Almost happy. >>Happy Stories, Mostly.

• Exile in the interior. >>Arabesques.

• This is beauty.

• Replace me!

• Our film recommendation this week: Quatermass and the Pit.

• Following the sun.

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Issue #174

• Colonised by aliens. >>Turncoat.

• Can a woman change her life? >>Lioness.

• The words. >>The Words for Her.

• Creation Story. >>Poūkahangatus. >>Rangikura.

• Doubtful Sound. >>Birnam Wood.

• Literature can’t save us. >>This Devastating Fever.

• What sparks the words?

• Not per se. >>Where the Wild Ladies Are.

• Marguerite Duras’s kitchen. >>Marguerite Duras’s books.

• Artificial intelligence revives Māori dialects.

• Too much money. >>Too Much Money.

• The detritus of reality. >>Ulysses.

• All I am is literature. >>The literature.

• Rostrum. >>The Liar’s Dictionary.

• Our film recommendation this week: The Quiet Girl. >>Foster.

• Play!

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Issue #173

• The uses of illiteracy. >>The Illiterate. >>The Notebook.

• Arondissements. >>Standing Heavy. >>The Martins.

• I was a coyote. >>Kick the Latch.

• Genre and gender. >>Hit Parade of Tears.

• A guided tour of Hell. >>Station to Station.

• More myth than history. >>The West.

• A restless medium. >>Through Shaded Glass.

• “I never believed a novel could make anyone whole.” >>Bibliolepsy.

• Working hard. >>Childhood, Youth, Dependency.

• Undervalued Labour. >>They Call It Love.

• Two fugitives. >>Down With the Poor! >>Eastbound.

• Hear me howl! >>Nightbitch.

• Building something together.

• Memory and bilingualism.

• Inciting revolution.

• A blind atlas.

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Issue #172

• Detective anguish. >>Mild Vertigo.

• The psychopathology of the doppelgänger. >>August Blue.

• To die one’s own death. >>The Plague.

• More primary school teacher than enfant terrible. >>Boy Parts. >>Penance.

• Both the one of us. >>Tomb of Sand.

• Fiction gives reality a human shape. >>When We Cease to Understand the World.

• A book for the ages. >>The Diary of Virginia Woolf.

• Nearly impossible. >>The Diaries of Franz Kafka.

• What kind of mind?

• Petit Fours.

• Our film recommendation this week: Stories We Tell.

• Play.

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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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