Issue #195 (Bumper summer holiday issue!)

• Done is done. >>(But available also in 2024. )

• The very first row of first-raters. >>Geoff Cochrane: Selected Poems.

• I behave like a fiend. >>All Sorts of Lives.

• Taking a big risk. >>Strega.

• From Upper Moutere to the world. >>The Untamed Thread.

• Turbine | Kapohau.

• The Poor Things Problem.. >>Poor Things. >>Poor Things.

• Woefully neglected. >>A few books by Alasdair Gray.

• Granta essay selection.

• Granta fiction selection.

• The Norway model. >>Read your way to Norway.

• A genuine record.

• The Autopoiesis of a Prokaryote.

• The Underwater Cabaret.

• Listening lips.

• Mistress of a new world. >>The Blazing World. >>Margaret the First.

• South Korea’s city of books.

• Too thick to cut. >>Surviving Autocracy.

• “My heart breaks every day.” >>Enter Ghost.

• When ravens could speak, &c.

• The world’s first costume book.

• An introduction to Enuma Elish.

• Break your bleedin’ heart.

• The marionettes of Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster.

• 139 covers.

• Illuminated logos.

• Our film recommendation this week: Godland.

• Reading statistics 2023.

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Issue #194

• The exploited muse. >>The Forest Brims Over.

• Maybe her life had begun again. >>Root Leaf Flower Fruit.

• Disappearing news. >>From Paper to Platform.

• Avoiding mirrors. >>Bird Life.

• The second life of translations. >>Star 111.

• A desperate situation getting more desperate. >>The 100 Years’ War on Palestine.

• Loneliness and loyalty. >>The Lion and the Bird.

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

• Challenges. >>Praiseworthy.

• Falling away. >>Campo Santo.

• The test of innocence.

• The sound and the story. >>Paradise Lost.

• On reviewing children’s books in Aotearoa.

• A field of buttons.

• The forgotten giant.

• “Shake, me up, Judy!”

• Page 37.

• The greatest private dictionary collection in the world.

• Our film recommendation this week: Aisha.

• Artmail.

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Issue #193

• “If you do not use what is within you, what is within you will destroy you.” >>Prophet Song.

• Quotidian situations. >>Our Strangers.

• Endless, nameless. >>Hangman.

• The dreamlike paths. >>Dialogue with a Somnambulist.

• Without a hat. >>This Plague of Souls.

• Coming of age in the tundra. >>Split Tooth.

• Everything you need to know. >>Elena Knows.

• Who inspired who? >>The short list.

• Waking a sleeping language.

• An open letter from booksellers.

• Translating the non-existent.

• Our film recommendation this week: Radio On.

• Knit two friends. >>Frog and Toad.

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Issue #192.

• Experiencing the world differently. >>Bird Life.

• Part poetry, part electricity. >>Cuddy.

• The quiet revolution in Māori art. >>Ki Mua, Ki Muri.

• Behind the page. >>The short list.

• You’ll never make yourself fall asleep. >>Sleepless.

• Beware the Balrog! >>Fire Weather.

• “Language has deserted me.” >>Minor Detail.

• Without the confidence of commitment. >>Some Things Wrong.

• Dubious rhymes.

• A bookseller recommends.

• Translators aloud.

• Making Homer modern. >>The Iliad. >>The Odyssey.

• Lost for words.

• Paintings in Proust. >>The Way by Swann’s.

• Who’s coming?

• A feeling of total freedom. >>Not in the Future Library.

• Coral tongues.

• The astonishing behaviour of recursive sequences.

• Our film recommendation this week: Brief Encounter.

• Sarah Laing’s year of excellent reading.

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Issue #191

• The tyranny of the image. >>The Words for Her.

• That was a joke. >>I Hear You’re Rich.

• Little that has not already happened. >>Gunflower.

• How to read one another. >>Cold Enough for Snow.

• But is it a ‘sports novel’? >>Western Lane.

• Aspiring to pastlessness. >>The Delivery.

• Going home. >>A walk through fifty years of occupation.

• The displaced person: a syllabus.

• The unexpected relevance of medieval monsters.

• 1,000,000 laundry lists.

• Meet the LLMs.

• Our film recommendation this week: My Childhood.

• An end to homelessness.

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Issue #190

• Not a catastrophe. >>Books by Fosse.

• Rays from another star. >>Star 111.

• Unruly bodies. >>Art Monsters.

• Off by heart. >>Remember Me.

• Recognising the stranger. >>Enter Ghost.

• Quiet Night. >>Nails and Eyes.

• Page turner. >>Pulped fiction.

• Like a washed corpse. >>Books by Jaeggy.

• Nightshade.

• Shrinking the size of Hell. >>Books by Calvino.

• Books and resistance.

• Kafka’s Prague. >>Kafka socks, anyone?

• A graphic design archive.

• Our film recommendation this week: White Riot.

• Pardon my French.

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Issue #189

• Through a mouth mostly open. >>Split Tooth.

• Sincerity leads nowhere. >>The Possessed.

• Cultural concepts. >>Rewi.

• “We need writers more than ever.” >>Against silencing. >>Read Thomas’s review of Minor Detail.

• Down the rabbit hole. >>Doppelganger.

• Poetry by heart. >>Remember Me.

• A connoisseur of the specific. >>Louise Gluck: Poems, 1962—2020.

• Musicality on the page. >>Divisible by Itself and One.

• Turkey’s feminist autofictionalist. >>Cold Nights of Childhood.

• Autopsies on the body of nature. >>Read Thomas’s review of Gargoyles.

• The city and the writer. >>Invisible Cities. >>Visible Cities.

• Grammar changes how we see.

• Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin.

• Our film recommendation this week: Detour.

• Blown, battered, and bottled.

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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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