Issue #224

• Meeting Monsieur. >>Célina.

• The present is a constant deferment. >>Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel a.k.a. Spontaneous Acts.

• The greatest gift: knowing what to do. >>Audition.

• Different People. >>Ask Me Again.

• Speaking ta rē Moriori. >>Ten Nosey Weka.

• The mob and the crowd. >>Poetics of Work.

• The battle for attention. >>12 Theses on Attention.

• Standing on water. >>The Fight for Freshwater.

• Housing affordability and kaitiakitanga. >>Urban Aotearoa.

• Grin slips. >>Affinities.

• The reckoning.

• A Tranquil Star.

• Nouns slow us down.

• Vielecke und Vielfläche.

• Poetry is…

• Just say No.

• Our film recommendation this week: The Third Man.

• Finnegans Wake spell check.

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Issue #223

• Sparking a revolution. >>Woman, Life, Freedom!

• Plenty of Marjanes and leilas. >>Woman, Life, Freedom!

• Freedom, cake, and revenge. >>The Raven’s Eye Runaways.

• The world grew around them. >>The Raven’s Eye Runaways.

• A grey line. >>Performance.

• Rich and rare. >>Bad Archive.

• Three modes. >>The Social Space of the Essay.

• Parenting under the patriarchy. >>Soldier Sailor.

• You know you love it. >>Gracehopper.

• How language misses its mark. >>Greek Lessons.

• Waiting for Gödel.

• Listen to this. >>How to begin.

• Many versions.

• The lost interview. >>Start reading!

• Destroyed.

• Our film recommendation this week: Bad Behaviour.

• Pre-order booksales are key.

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Issue #222

• Mysterious labours. >>Mary and the Rabbit Dream.

• The curious case of Mary Toft. >>Mary and the Rabbit Dream.

• On all fours. >>All Fours.

• Conversations about hypochondria. >>A Body Made of Glass.

• Three generations. >>This Strange Eventful History.

• Hard choices come with hidden costs. >>Choice.

• The writers who garden against time. >>The Garden Against Time.

• Telling people’s stories. >>Brotherless Night.

• Portrait. >>Amma.

• The Circle of a Year. >>Cacophony of Bone.

• Unbuttoning the constraints of history. >>Enter Ghost.

• All this solidarity from the world and yet nothing has changed. >>What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?

• The Minotaur is the Other. >>The Physics of Sorrow.

• Making Homer modern. >>Homer/Wilson.

• Taking on the consipracy theorists. >>Birds Aren’t Real.

• Armance. >>Books by Fleur Jaeggy.

• The Department of Preparation.

• Doodle nation.

• An Ethiopean coffee experience.

• The all-American delusion.

• Our film recommendation this week: The Seventh Year.

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Issue #221

• Enacting the disease. >>Performance.

• Beyond Womanhood. >>Parade.

• Art, violence and freedom. >>Parade.

• Language and isolation. >>Clear.

• Laing at home. >>The Garden Against Time.

• Crafted from love. >>Amma.

• An instant classic. >>Amma.

• Two Sámi families. >>Bold and beautiful. >>Ædnan .

• Giving birth to rabbits. >>Mary and the Rabbit Dream.

• Under the surface of these events. >>The Lodgers.

• Archived. >>Alphabetical Diaries.

• Climate change from the animals’ point of view. >>The End of Eden.

• Anonymous. >>The Postcard.

• Literary conclusions. >>Our Strangers.

• Unafraid to go nuts on the page. >>The Heart in Winter.

• Time zones. >>Books by Annie Erneaux.

• Launching books into the world. >>Books from Charco Press.

• Fragments from a damaged life.

• An imperfect classic.

• A useful recipe.

• The Situationist Times.

• Our film recommendation this week: Mars Express.

• A refusal.

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Issue #220

• Wrong on air. >>Wrong Norma.

• Throwing yourself into the dark. >>Wrong Norma.

• The Stuntman. >>Parade.

• Striking out against conformity. >>Parade.

• Falling. >>Performance.

• The instability of a self-portrait. >>Alphabetical Diaries.

• A man walks out of a bar in Eketahuna. >>The Social Space of the Essay.

• Challenging and chic. >>Books pubished by Fitzcarraldo Editions.

• Eight translators get lost in a forest. >>The Extinction of Irena Rey.

• Public reminiscence. >>The Physics of Sorrow.

• Thinking about writing. >>Pretty Ugly.

• Down in the dirt. >>The Children of the Dead.

• Transfixed anew. >>Books by Rachel Kushner.

• How to save a language from extinction.

• Balzac’s Paris in the dark and in the light.

• Ifs and buts.

• The makar Otago-bound.

• Can A.I. make plans?

• Our film recommendation this week: Rain.

• Every day.

• Derrida.

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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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