Issue #215

• Family secrets and complicated choices. >>Long Island.

• Havering and wavering. >>Long Island.

• Judith Butler thinks you’re overreacting. >>Who’s Afraid of Gender?

• Sex, drugs, rock’n’roll, and cricket. >>First Things.

• Self-portrait in Venice. >>In Italy.

• Freed from the shackles of time. >>Alphabetical Diaries.

• The special challenges of attempting a new translation of Kafka. >>Selected stories.

• Big toes are gross. >>Why Surrealism Matters.

• Are editors still tastemakers?

• Invasion is a structure, not an event.

• The frequentative form.

• Between languages.

• A French silk sample book (c.1900).

• Our film recommendation this week: The Metamorphosis of Birds. >>Interview with the director.

• The head-doctor’s head.

• The inescapable thingness.

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Issue #214

• Incompletely unwritten. >>Some Things Wrong.

• It’s too easy for Pākehā to do nothing. >>Audition.

• Vital to write, vital to publish, vital to read. >>Hine Toa.

• Paintings, ruminations, digressions. >>Women Holding Things.

• A ‘quiet’ children’s novel. >>Brown Bird.

• More than a divorce memoir. >>Splinters.

• A different kind of love story. >>Splinters.

• An extinction event. >>Hard by the Cloud House.

• A hidden but necessary labour. >>The Long Form.

• Why is our culture so obsessed with individual experience? >>Immediacy.

• The waxing of affect. >>Immediacy.

• An eclectic catalogue. >>The Book of All Loves.

• The art of estrangement. >>Childhood, Youth, Dependency.

• Anticipating the world in which we live. >>Selected Stories.

• Phonetic sounds and the written form of te reo.

• Publishers are already using too much A.I.

• To whom does Rosa Luxemburg belong?

• The secrets of the Roman catacombs.

• Eight films by Dziga Vertov.

• Our film recommendation this week: Riceboy Sleeps.

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Issue #213

• A spark of hope. >>Turncoat.

• Caves, sleep, an absence of light. >>The Vast Extent.

• Wasting her time. >>The Alphabetical Diaries.

• Living with death. >>The Plague.

• One hell of a lesson. >>Hine Toa.

• Strange and sinister. >>Hunter in Huskvarna.

• The mind-bending early weeks of parenthood. >>The Long Form.

• Ruin. >>Ruin.

• Bisected by a spade. >>Verdigris.

• Procrastination as work. >>What I’d Rather Not Think About.

• Do you recognise anybody? >>A Different Light.

• Mirror and portal. >>A Different Light.

• Will it be enough? >>Gracehopper.

• Tearing away at the time escaping. >>Exteriors.

• Mansfield and Chekhov. >>Mansfield. >>Chekhov.

• A mouth holds many things.

• Why you should read the International Booker Prize short list. >>Start reading!

• Sorry not sorry.

• Memory transplants!

• Our film recommendation this week: Roadkill.

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Issue #212

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• Book as Enemy. >>Minor Detail.

• Living legend. >>Hine Toa.

• The revolution will be memoired. >>Hine Toa.

• At the round table. >>Your copies.

• Four decades of Wellington street art. >>Here Today, Gone Tomorrow.

• An invigorating study of deafness. >>The Hearing Test.

• A re-envisioned 1984. >>Julia.

• Uncanny notes that plague this place. >>Hagstone.

• Time to say goodbye. >>I Must Be Dreaming.

• A full life depends on creativity. >>Lioness.

• Overlooked autofiction. >>Woman Running in the Mountains.

• Acknowledging our own vulnerability. >>Jon Fosse.

• Last week at Marienbad. >>Deutschland.

• Writing and swimming help each other. >>August Blue.

• Our film recommendation this week: The Zone of Interest.

• No rules. Just read.

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Issue #211

• Page-turning rural gothic. >>Ash.

• Unjoined-up thinking. >>Wrong Norma.

• Pause for fifteen minutes. >>Caledonian Road.

• His target may be language itself. >>James.

• An empathy machine. >>Audition.

• The aesthetic memoir. >>A Flat Place.

• The true depth of a cave. >>Creation Lake.

• Very much alive again. >>Talia.

• Why we forget. >>Why We Remember.

• The bookish tramper. >>Bushline.

• This is how you build a city. >>Tetromino City.

• Jeffs made a mistake. >>A Mistake.

• It is decidedly so. >>Seven Steeples.

• Disabling Modernism.

• The critic and her publics.

• On boredom.

• Enter here.

• why your hair is long & your stories short

• Not satire, unfortunately.

• One hundred surreal years.

• Warning shots.

• “Crazy with the poison of Vietnam in my lungs.”

• 1984 x 1984.

• We cannot succeed in destroying democracy unless we first destroy language.

• Read and Chill.

• Reduce!

• Our film recommendation this week: Persona.

• Should that be Goodwyn’s or Goodwyns’?

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Issue #210

• There like a husk. >>Lioness.

• Hidden mothers and Māori trading cards. >>A Different Light.

• Walking backwards into the future. >>A Book of Rongo and Te Rangahau.

• On Brigid Brophy. >>Hackenfeller’s Ape.

• On the attack. >>How to Win an Information War.

• Why we have evolved to forget. >>Why We Remember.

• The power of reading. >>The Vaster Wilds.

• Your most precious commodity. >>How to Do Nothing. >>Saving Time.

• Not satire (unfortunately).

• Where does culture come from?

• Writing as a blood-and-guts business.

• Bridging individuals and cultures.

• How a library changed your life.

• Macbeth and Macduff get into an argument over semantics.

• ‘Sugar Daddy’.

• The Anarchist’;s Tool Chest.

• You cannot succeed in destroying democracy without first also destroying language.

• How to do sport.

• Apostrophe’s.

• The ‘to be read’ pile.

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Issue #209

• Mothering in late-stage Capitalism. >>Ash.

• The same old tired guilty stick? >>The Unsettled.

• De-enchanting. >>Spent Light.

• Undoubted brilliance. >>Amma.

• A dead river. >>Of Cattle and Men.

• A love letter to Wellington. >>When I Open the Shop.

• The past survives in the telling. >>Rombo.

• A literary sitcom about life, death, and climate change. >>The Extinction of Irena Rey.

• Rewilding. >>The Language of Trees.

• Bloomsbury chic. >>Bring No Clothes.

• A hole at the bottom of the book. >>Ernaux. >>Hole Studies.

• Informality and immediacy. >>Fleur Adcock: Collected Poems.

• The comma from which my heart hangs.

• What is the point of the author interview?

• You are not the messiah.

• The tourist map of literature.

• Japanese schoolbooks.

• Our film recommendation this week: Ghost Dog.

• The latest draft.

Issue #208

• Stella Interviews Vivian and Caroline Thonger. >>Take Two.

• Colin McCahon’s insatiable desire. >>Dear Colin, Dear Ron.

• Gabriele Wiener does not care if you don’t see her writing as literature. >>Undiscovered.

• Photography as an unexpected writing tool. >>The Extinction of Irena Rey.

• Genre, truth, animals, and, of course, Sonia. >>Kick the Latch.

• The view from the backstretch. >>Kick the Latch.

• i am an old phenomenon. >>worm, root, wort… & bane.

• Embracing and rejecting the colonial lens. >>A Different Light.

• The fun starts with the endpapers. >>The Russian Detective.

• Depends. >>Turncoat.

• Heartbreak and family love. >>The International Booker Prize short list.

• What obituaries tell us about how the world views artists. >>This Is Not a Novel, And other novels.

• Turning the page.

• In words and beyond them.

• The joy of writing unpublishable books.

• A woman out of time.

• On the rise. >>Read their books!

• There are too many books.

• Cat symphony.

• No wrong answers.

• No idling.

• The fish doorbell. .

• Scathing.

• Snips.

• Virtual paua.

• Our film recommendation this week: The Nest.

• Bed-time story.

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Issue #207 (Bumper Autumn Issue)

• A state of disconnection. >>Turncoat.

• Opening portals with our hands. >>Te Rā.

• Spying, lying, and Eros. >>Kairos.

• A private story of a big love and its decay, but also the dissolution of a whole political system. >>Kairos.

• Travels in knowledge. >>The Beautiful Afternoon.

• How and why writing gets under your skin. >>Strega.

• Lost in the supermarket. >>Bird Life.

• Who’s afraid of the Large Language Model?

• A sense of agency. >>No Judgement.

• Making of a poem. >>In the Company of Bees. >>The Ceaseless Murmuring of Innumerable Bees.

• Phantoms of patriarchy.

• A courageous book. >>The Unsettled.

• Gurle talk. >>Mother Tongue.

• Dogmatism in reverse. >>Critique of Everyday Life.

• Double-time seabird. >>The Islander.

• Speaking up for Palestine is hard, but it has never been more necessary. >>Erasing Palestine.

• Borges and the blind.

• Falling into the web of superstition. >>Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare.

• “It was not the case that I could not write. “

• I am one, only one, only one.

• The beautiful mind-bending of Stanislaw Lem. >>Solaris.

• A reluctant subject.

• The Egg and the Chicken.

• Lubunca is the language of activism.

• How to make a poetry comic.

• The small press world is about to fall apart. >>What the closure of SPD means for readers.

• Books are a good, cheap weapon to fight against extremism.

• Once upon a time.

• It’s unfair to put a thinking person on a cruise ship.

• Gadzooks!

• Rejection.

• Our film recommendation this week: Dreaming Walls.

• The alphabet.

• The poor little encyclopedia girl.

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Issue #206

• Stella interviews Anna Smaill. >>Bird Life.

• Shadow Lives. >>My Brilliant Sister.

• Sophie Calle at the Musée Picasso. >>Find out more.

• Running man. >>The End of August.

• The translator’s voice. >>The End of August.

• Among the bric-a-brac. >>Roman Stories.

• Little is thought out beforehand. >>Tomb of Sand.

• Concerning the future of souls. >>Harrow.

• The multiplication of monsters.

• The fall of my teenage self. >>The Fraud.

• Writer, woman, playwright, spy. >>Books by Aphra Behn.

• The worst possible name for a grocery store. >>Erewhon.

• The art of thinking in dangerous times.

• A lost interview with Clarice Lispector. >>Read!

• This is our beautiful castle.

• Make the switch.

• Writers and their cats.

• Our film recommendation this week: Brooklyn. >>Order Colm Tóibín’s forthcoming Long Island before 14 April and save 10% by using the code COLM when checking out.

• Alien invasion.

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Issue #205

• Seeing the light. >>Thunderclap.

• History comes alive. >>Te Ata o Tū.

• A “Trojan horse” novel. >>Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

• Unblenched. >>Hackenfeller’s Ape.

• Hernan Diaz on New York.. >>Trust.

• The world capital of endangered languages.

• Follow The Tale of Genji. >>The Tale of Genji.

• A bad model is bad for everybody.

• Start planning. >>Start reading.

• Our film recommendation this week: Afire.

• The world map according to fish.

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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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