Issue #188

• Gestures of refusal. >>Study for Obedience.

• Apocalyptic thinking. >>End Times.

• The story reteller. >>The Plague.

• Can you conquer death by depicting your life on paper? >>Beyond the Door of No Return.

• “You must invent to tell the true story.” >>Star 111.

• Making New Zealand. >>Blood and Dirt.

• The Quaker Comet. >>The Fearless Benjamin Lay.

• The chairman’s Fosse favourites. >>Septology

• A Nobel in the living room. >>Transit’s edition of Septology.

• What was literary fiction?

• Literature is needed in cruel and painful times. >>Thomas’s review of Minor Detail.

• Poetic science. >>How to Be a Good Creature.

• Physical things retain memory. >>Collection of Sand.

• William Blake’s printing process.

• The journey that matters. >>Some books by Le Guin.

• The rise of dystopian fiction.

• For goodness’ sake.

• An innovative subversion of the male gaze. >>Boy Parts.

• Translation, sheep, &c.

• London in November.

• Superstitions About Animals.

• Our film recommendation this week: Gagarine.

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Issue #187

• Sleep as another awakening. >>Sleepless.

• The question of innocence is a complicated one. >>Study for Obedience.

• A clear starting impulse. >>Western Lane.

• Giving voice to the unsayable. >>Books by Jon Fosse.

• Why does pne tiny publisher keep winning prizes? >>Books from Fitzcarraldo Editions.

• Our Bookshop Day competition entries. The winner will be announced in our newsletter on 13 October.

• Vote for books and reading! >>The issues.

• Given up on book clubs? >>Gunflower.

• Why Lydia Davis loves misunderstandings. >>Books by Lydia Davis.

• The woman who reimagined the dystopian novel. >>Kallocain.

• Check your aunty’s walls. >>Face to the Sky.

• The first of these beautiful books has arrived. >>Star 111. >>Split Tooth.

• The creative power of uncertainty. >>How to Start Writing (and When to Stop).

• The paradox of self-reflection. >>Walking.

• Ferrante before Ferrante. >>Lies and Sorcery.

• The emerging designer.

• Walking and weather.

• Our film recommendation this week: Limbo.

• The bookcase.

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Issue #186

• Four-in-the-morning literature. >>Sleepless.

• One day we would germinate. >>Little Doomsdays.

• Life under infant rule. >>My Work.

• History as it happens.

• A timeless taonga. >>Te Rā.

• Forgetting how to write. >>Greek Lessons.

• Motherhood as loss. >>Wednesday’s Child.

• Endless and unfinished. >>Macunaíma.

• Endgame emotions. >>Endgame.

• The case for walking slowly. >>A Philosophy of Walking.

• A Jacobean travelling library.

• Our Bookshop Day competition.

• Our film recommendation this week: The Servant.

• Buying books in an uncertain world.

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Issue #185

• Failure, error, and incapacity. >>Some Things Wrong.

• Not something that happens in a second. >>My Work.

• Looking good.

• Elusive identities. >> Dark Neighbourhood.

• On populism, post-truth, and piggybacking. >>Beasts of England.

• On building a story from details. >>After the Funeral.

• A new kind of book for a new kind of world. >>Paku Manu Ariki Whakatakapōkai.

• The long and the short of it. >>Wall.

• His eyes, her voice. >>Greek Lessons.

• Who cares about the page count? >>The Bee Sting.

• Waiting for the miracle. >>Dark Neighbourhood.

• Hearing the voices of the dead. >>The Variations.

• Brilliant, not “good”. >>The Drowned World.

• Everything you need to know about the 2023 Booker Prize short list. >>Your copies of the books!

• A dream house of words. >>The Lights.

• The architecture of dreams.

• The story of Lorem Ipsum.

• Our film recommendation this week: Loving Highsmith.

• The book was better.

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Issue #184

• A library of libraries. >>Little Doomsdays.

• Relish every moment of rest. >>Sleepless.

• Kupu Toi Takataapui.

• More autistic writers. >>All the Little Bird-Hearts.

• David Markson’s postmodern turn. >>Wittgenstein’s Mistress.

• “I really want to write the books I want to write before I die.” >>The Fraud.

• On killing Charles Dickens. >>The Fraud.

• On the slipperiness of language.

• On the alphabet of dreams.

• On butterless madeleines. >>A New Way to Bake.

• My name is ink.

• Antikythera lego.

• Notes on bad poetry.

• Unobservable phase transition.

• Adorno and the culture industry. >>Minima Moralia.

• 700 years of Dante’s Divine Comedy in art. >>More Favourable Waters.

• Our film recommendation this week: El Planeta.

• Pepper and solt.

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Issue #183

• Little tin openers. >>Books by Ann Quin.

• Transgressive power. >>Forbidden Notebook.

• Young and old. >>Look! Said the Little Girl.

• Get ready for the Māori Language Moment!

• A reason to celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Māori.

• Proust, ChatGPT and the case of the forgotten quote. >>Books by Elif Batuman.

• Across the (different) pond. >>Books from Charco Press.

• Retinal pessimism.

• Dostoevsky MS.

• The Wanderer. >>Still Born.

• Book jackets.

• A History of Mourning.

• Can Rilke change your life? >>Letters to a Young Poet.

• RE: [YOUR SUBMISSION] (spoiler alert, the news is bad).

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Issue #182

• No grim read. >>Tsunami.

• Wednesdays’ Child. >>Wednesday’s Child.

• After the fall. >>Kairos.

• The shortest night of the year. >>A Line in the World. 

• Thanks to all the boredom. >>Lost on Me.

• Narrative hoard. >>Wall.

• Anchor. >>Always Italicise.

• Right now. >>Turncoat.

• Winter Starling.

• The trembling beauty of life. >>Station to Station.

• Ideas and questions. >>Paku Manu Ariki Whakatakapōkai.

• As if punished. >>Melaqncholy I—II.

• Thinking yourself into the past. >>Time Song.

• Diasporatanga.

• Freud’s library.

• Solitary living.

• Borges and the blind.

• The decreationist. >>Books by or about Simone Weil.

• The anarchist prince. >>Anarchist Communism.

• How to protect your books from thieves.

• James Joyce’s errors. >>Ulysses.

• The Haunted Castle.

• Our film recommendation this week: Fear and Trembling. >>The book!

• Dawn chorus.

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Issue #181

• Writing in the Ruins. >>Kairos.

• Such an immense relief. >>Wall.

• Return to the printed form. >>Gloria.

• Drawn conclusions. >>Past the Tower, Under the Tree.

• A liar’s life. >>Lost on Me.

• Complex, and seemingly taboo. >>Porn, An oral history.

• To write is to create empty space. >>Liliana’s Invincible Summer.

• Our imaginations are in service to the wrong ends. >>Wish I Was Here.

• Stories by any means necessary. >>Now I Am Here.

• From the Puponga butcher shop.

• Peter Freuchen amputates his toes. >>Wanderlust.

• Those shelves! >>The Last Days of Roger Federer.

• Document I. >>The Shadow of the Coachman’s Body.

• Which book should you read first? >>The long list.

• Hell is other people.

• Ex oriente lux.

• Our film recommendation this week: A.K.

• Cover version.

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Issue #180

• Putting Pākehā in the shoes of a colonised people. >>Turncoat.

• Deadbeat dads, werd kids, school bullies. >>Tsunami.

• The agony of the ‘enemy’ language. >>The Illiterate.

• Technology, attention, and the extremely long paragraph. >>Books by Thomas Bernhard.

• The hidden history of prison labour. >>Blood and Dirt.

• Sheer talent. >>Hiwa.

• Living with death. >>The Plague.

• Hallucinatory realsim. >>No Love Lost.

• A woman metamorphoses into a fitness influencer. >>Chrysalis.

• Writing from the ghosthouse. >>In Memory of Memory.

• Oblique memories. >>The Song of Youth.

• Home is where the heart/hurt/hatred/hearth/hope is.

• Women in translation.

• Where to start. >>Start now.

• What can se say? >>Investigations, &c, by L.W.

• A rattlesna(k)e.

• Victor Hugo’s most underappreciated work.

• Radical histories in a surveillance archive.

• What does it mean (for a machine) to understand?

• Very nice.

• First encounter with a 37km-tall alien.

• Our film recommendation this week: The L-Shaped Room.

• Instant artist statement.

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Issue #179

• The last of its kind. >>Te Rā.

• Pushing all the buttons at the same time. >>Biography of X.

• A message like you. >>Ten Planets.

• Both well-known and emerging. >>Hiwa.

• Silk maps in his trouser seams. >>John Mulgan and the Greek Left.

• How prison labour built New Zealand. >>Blood and Dirt.

• Dream delivery.

• Surrendering to its own obsessions. >>You, Bleeding Childhood.

• A do-nothing career. >>Rental Person Who Does Nothing.

• Star-crossed. >>Rōmeo rāua ko Hurieta.

• Extracts from the long list. >>The Booker long list.

• As seen on TV. >>Auē.

• Honour killings complled the book. >>Pyre.

• Radio years. >>Radio Benjamin.

• Ten translators on translating.

• What we do in the weekend.

• Our film recommnedation this week: Arcadia.

• Who needs a cookbook? >>Our cookbooks.

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Issue #178

• Breaking rocks. >>Blood and Dirt.

• Publisher Barbara Epler’s book selections. >>Books published by New Directions. >>Pure Colour.

• “A genius on the level of Beckett.” >>Read Thomas’s reviews of several books by Gerald Murnane.

• The strange and the spiritual. >>Shadow Worlds.

• Where did language come from? >>Books by Cormac McCarthy.

• How it should be between people. >>Is Mother Dead.

• Toggling. >>Nothing Special.

• Staying with you.

• The new publishing paradigm.

• “I’m nobody when I write.” >>Books by Annie Ernaux.

• To make a world habitable. >>Translation as Transhumance.

• Sympathetic to our plight. >>Books by Krasznahorkai.

• The woman behind Borges. >>Labyrinths.

• What’s going on in literary publishing?

• How do I make art and also pay the bills?

• Our film recommendation this week: My Father and Me.

• That doesn’t look right!

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Issue #177

• Who’s looking? >>The Words for Her.

• You’re soaking in it. >>Ordinary Notes.

• Pip, Genius. >>Audition.

• Places I’ve never been. >>Eunuch.

• Her actual face. >>The Wonders.

• Rampaging teenagers, female assassins. >>Beyond the Wall.

• It’s exciting. It’s powerful. >>Translated fiction at VOLUME.

• The PANZ Book Design Awards short lists.

• Occupied by the past. >>The Pole.

• Outside the museum of literature. >>Solenoid.

• Everyone agreed. >>The Vegetarian.

• Freed from childhood. >>Armand V.

• Borrowed, sampled, and remixed.

• A cacophonous miracle. >>Take your pick.

• Our film recommendation this week: Dreaming of Space.

• Your bedside reading pile.

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