Issue #219

• A non-state of non-being. >>Parade.

• Transportive and transformative prose. >>Enlightenment.

• Writing the past that lives within us. >>A Strange Eventful History.

• Stepping towards the internet. >>Papyrus.

• Reconsidering the Southern Man. >>Max.

• Music and food etch into his words. >>When I Open the Shop.

• Some New Zealanders in Republican China. >>Interesting Times.

• Cloud extract. >>Old Black Cloud.

• Dangerous and out of control.

• Close to everything. >>The Nursery.

• Changing Ireland. >>The Magician. >>Long Island.

• Literature that surrenders to its own obsessions. >>You, Bleeding Childhood. >>Verdigris.

• Non-places and junk space. >>An Introduction to Supermodernity.

• The Blazing World Walk. >>The Blazing World.

• Burning energy. >>The Book Makers.

• Stoking the werewolf panic.

• Head Space.

• Why Nothing Matters.

• Sorted.

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Issue #218

• Knitted cathedral. >>Parade.

• Relentless dismantling. >>Parade.

• Two worlds collided. >>Praiseworthy.

• Quirked up. >>Museum Visits.

• A word that cradles the reader. >>At the Grand Glacier Hotel.

• A long time coming. >>The Heart in Winter.

• No laws, only circumstances. >>Caledonian Road.

• Proximity and distance. >>Brian.

• Climate change A to Z. >>H Is for Hope.

• No border, no separation. >>The Planetarium. >>Tropisms.

• More relevant than ever. >>Nineteen Eighty-Four.

• At a time of crisis, reading books can help us make sense of the world.

• On getting the life you want.

• Abandoning a cat.

• Our film recommendation this week: Taste of Cherry.

• Crab Canon on a Möbius strip.

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Issue #217

• The radical potential of gardens. >>The Garden Against Time.

• Hidden relationships with colonialism. >>The Garden Against Time.

• Not an excuse for doing nothing. >>Doppelganger.

• On those who end life and those whose lives end. >>The Book Against Death.

• A metaphysical mistake. >>The Book Against Death.

• Saying the unsayable. >>A Silent Language.

• Wild resistance. >>Without Model.

• A world inside one head. >>Ulysses.

• Geology.

• What Jane Austen tells us about the British ‘Imperial Project’.

• Our film recommendation this week: Fallen Leaves.

• A poem by Man Ray, 1924.

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Issue #216

• The smell of bread forms a map of life. >>Do Not Send Me Out Among Strangers.

• “Books available!” >>I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home.

• A geologist, a philosopher, a politician, and a chef walk into a bar… >>The Alternatives.

• Women who centre work in their lives. >>The Alternatives.

• Life on her own terms. >>How to Say Babylon.

• The past ruptures and grows through the present. >>Missing Persons.

• The world comes down on your head. >>Caledonian Road.

• Never feeling truly at home. >>The Hive and the Honey.

• The epicentre of a cultural debate. >>Ans Westra: A life in photography.

• Alienated from his own words.

• A cartoonist’s origin story.

• Neither more nor less.

• Credit where credit is due.

• The invisible city beneath Paris.

• A Japanese film festival online.

• My life in Opposite Land.

• Our film recommendation this week: Perfect Days.

• Handling it.

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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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