Issue #204

• Not not-understood but nonexistent. >>La Bâtarde.

• Radical, innovative, independent. >>Books from CB Editions.

• A gem of a book. >>Take Two.

• Readers are always right. >>Your Utopia.

• ‘Taonga’. >>Turncoat.

• Finder, keeper. >>Tremor.

• Safety through the classified advertisements. >>I Seek a Kind Person.

• I am his leavings. >>The Wren, the Wren.

• Revisiting the radical presence. >>Revolutionary Letters.

• Adopt one of Freud’s books.

• Our film recommendation this week: News from Home.

• What your favourite philosopher says about you.

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Issue #203

• Write in fragments. >>Chinese Fish.

• Beyond the threshold of what is possible. >>Woven.

• Tending and tendering. >>Intervals.

• Kadare takes us everywhere. >>A Dictator Calls.

• A generous dollop of the fantastical. >>The Grimmelings.

• Tackling climate change with bonkers ideas. >>Ultrawild.

• A transgressive tour de force. >>My Heavenly Favourite.

• Multistorey consciousness. >>The Pole.

• A penchant for unrequited love. >>Greta & Valdin.

• We’re all in this together. >>Browse fiction. >>Browse non-fiction.

• Do you know or can you guess?

• Its rolling furious eyes. >>Miracles and Machines.

• Kafka was a terrible boyfriend. >>Letters to Felice.

• Are fictional sausages suitable for vegetarian authors?

• Latin Sebaldianism. >>Recommended reading.

• When philosophers become therapists.

• What Smout said..

• “I love to hear the sound of form, and I love to hear the sound of it breaking.” >>New Selected Poems.

• Our film recommendation this week: After Yang.

• Book Day!

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Issue #202

• Pushed up against the inner life of another person. >>Lori & Joe.

• Anatomy of a sound. >>Rombo.

• In touch with her younger self. >>The Grimmelings.

• How do you build a life? >>Do You Still Have Time for Chaos?

• Where change comes from. >>The Singularity.

• Texts in The Rings of Saturn. >>The Rings of Saturn.

• Manufacturing fear. >>The Factory.

• Language itself is at war with accepted modes of expression. >>Out of Earth.

• Unnatural disasters. >>Ice.

• A letter from Benjamin Myers. >>Cuddy.

• Present tense(ness).

• The man who remembered everything. >>The Mind of a Mnemonist.

• How to sew.

• Want to write better?

• Class politics shapes everyday life.

• Our film recommendation this week: The Munekata Sisters.

• Your address on Pangea.

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Issue #201

• A radical fusion of linguistic experiment and philosophical enquiry. >>D. >>Alphabetical Diaries.

• Emotion comes into the world the moment we take on language. >>Motion Sickness.

• The ungoverned and the ungovernable. >>Do You Still Have Time for Chaos?

• Capitalist horror. >>The Coiled Serpent.

• The best genderqueer mountain lion novel of the year. >>Open Throat.

• Unseen. >>The Words for Her.

• Unredacting. >>Nineteen Eighty-Four.

• A first-class scold. >>A Cool Head and a Sharp Pen.

• Identify what is weird. >>Pond.

• Translating philosophy. >>The new Tractatus.

• Blood on all our hands. >>Minor Detail.

• Paul Lynch on Prophet Song. >>Read the book!

• Different language — different world view. >>The Basics Explained.

• Literary loops.

• Journalism as a front of war.

• Read anywhere and everywhere.

• 1948: Creation and Catastrophe.

• Ubu Roi (1965).

• Our film recommendation this week: Anatomy of a Fall.

• The End.

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Issue #200

• Cheat sheet. >>Read them yourself!

• Colm Tóibín chats with Mike McCormack. >>This Plague of Souls.

• How to be well read in a year of dragons. >>Start now.

• Found in the rubble. >>The Singularity.

• Haunted by the trespasses of art. >>Tremor.

• Sounds like fiction. >>Minor Detail.

• Imagined spaces. >>Lori and Joe.

• Excuse the flag. >>Read the books.

• Americanised or Americanized?

• The perilous paradox.

• Are you the same person you used to be?

• Eyes on Gaza.

• In praise of halvings.

• Writers at risk.

• Our film recommendation this week: Let the River Flow.

• Inside-of-body experience.

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Issue #199

• Toitū te Tiriti!

• Walking upstairs carrying two mugs of coffee. >>Lori and Joe.

• Far from being a blank. >>Lori and Joe.

• Time-stopping. >>Thunderclap.

• Stella checks the room. >>Ludwig and the Rhinoceros.

• Cutting the barb from the body. >>Not a River.

• The genius who ruined eternity. >>Sublunar.

• Two very different mothers. >>The Singularity.

• Imaginary. >>Immediacy.

• Wild swans.

• How to use (or not use) a hyphen.

• Byrne’s Euclid. >>For your shelf.

• Why Scotland lost its tongue.

• Ghost stories.

• The secret of Thomas Mann’s translator.

• The Halldór Laxness Museum. >>Some books written there.

• Our film recommendation this week: Throne of Blood.

• The writer attempts to improve his novel.

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Issue #198

• The dark side of everyday things. >>Spent Light.

• “Not a well-read man.” >>Inland.

• Living on the fringes.

• A philosophical novel of abject madness. >>Gargoyles.

• The Battle of the F-word. >>How Late It Was, How Late.

• The Blazing World. >>The Blazing World. >>Pure Wit.

• Our catastrophe.

• Rethinking the bookshop.

• The quest to decode the Madelbrot Set. >>Mandelbrot the Magnificent.

• This is not a toy.

• This week’s punctuation power rankings.

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Issue #197

• The power of the pause. >>Memorial, 29 June.

• “I stopped speaking at 19.” >>I Need Art: Reality Isn’t Enough.

• Which Brontë sister wrote it?

• Mathematical punctuation.

• The science of life and death. >>Frankenstein, Or, The New Prometheus.

• Kafka in love.

• How to split a society. >>Knowledge Is a Blessing on Your Mind.

• Before the displays.

• Agile and sustainable.

• Email signoffs ranked from worst to best.

• Books that read you.

• Our film recommendation this week: Women Without Men.

• Year-at-a-glance.

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Issue #196

• Inside the mind of a master. >>Inland. >>Other books by Murnane.

• I think I do books that may sound strange. >>Appliance.

• Exclusion as a site of possibility.

• The same river twice. >>Ædnan.

• The wild west. >>This Plague of Souls.

• 100 novels.

• Books fatal to their authors.

• How to shelve your books.

• Speculative reverse colonisation and projected inverse anthropology.

• A rare harmony. >>Millions of Cats.

• The work of the witness.

• The lost art of paste-up.

• Advice to the young. >>Books by Ernaux.

• A surprising offer. >>The Last Wolf / Herman.

• Beautiful, unusual, and weird.

• Living in the century of fear (why we need books). >>My Friends.

• The Book of Bread.

• Masters of the ice.

• The Journal of Beckett Studies.

• When James Joyce received the proofs from his publisher.

• Free zines about Palestine.

• Bookshops make people’s lives better.

• Our film recommendation this week: Saint Omer.

• Virginia Woolf’s 1931 New Year’s Resolution.

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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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