Issue #231

• A health resort horror story. >>The Empusium.

• More than just TB. >>The Empusium.

• Wandering fragments. >>Praiseworthy.

• Bill Direen’s dustbin of empathy. >>100 Years of Darkness.

• ‘With My Back to the World, 1997.’ >>With My Back to the World.

• Narrative sovereignty. >>Audition.

• Radiant nothingness. >>The Passion According to G.H.

• Dreaming within the text. >>Moby-Dick.

• Obliterations or substitutes? >>Enacting the disease. >>Performance.

• The PANZ Book Design Award winners.

• Sometimes-food or daily bread?

• Crayon processes.

• Populists, frauds, and flip-phones.

• What is the point of literature in a democracy?

• Surrealism at 100.

• Community and connection.

• Retyping as close reading.

• Kei tāku īmēra i mua.

• lol.

• Almost ready to write.

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Issue #230

• A curated tour. >>Modern Women.

• A genius in pink jandals. >>Rewi.

• All in a drop. >>The Are Rivers in the Sky.

• Transformational. >>The Invasion of Waikato.

• Life is not fair. >>Wrong Norma.

• The obscene excess of the literary. >>Verdigris. >>You, Bleeding Childhood.

• What would you add?

• She wrote about all her lovers. >>Secret Voices.

• Ulysses and its wake. >>Ulysses.

• Crown Heights North.

• Illustrator to illustrator.

• George Saunders’s writing education.

• From Kafka’s window.

• A pretty good life.

• What to do with a book.

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Issue #229

• A philosophical spy novel for an age of environmental anxiety. >>Creation Lake.

• “I never told my husband I was a novelist.” >>Mina’s Matchbox.

• Language as a living thing. >>Spontaneous Acts a.k.a. Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel.

• Celan reads Japanese.

• The writing life. >>Elkin. >>Levy. >>Darrieussecq.

• The good hacker. >>Plurality.

• Love and trauma. >>The Echoes.

• Butting heads. >>The Fight for Freshwater.

• Ta rē Moriori revival. >>Ten Nosey Weka.

• Why A.I. isn’t going to make art. >>Stories of Your Life and Others.

• “I never had the intention to be an author.” >>Books by Jon Fosse.

• The supreme conradictions of Simone Weil. >>Books by or about Simone Weil.

• The long view.

• The power of picture books.

• Humanity’s strangest language.

• The seven kinds of friendship you find in literature.

• No one’s going to fund two old men. >>The Street of Crocodiles and the Sanatorium under the Hourglass.

• A word about a word addressed to a word.

• Samuel Beckett’s objection to Franz Kafka.

• The universal board.

• Shock without awe.

• Our film recommendation this week: Beyond the Hills.

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Issue #228

• Double dealing in deepest France. >>Creation Lake.

• Does language make art happy? >>Like Love.

• Turning the lights on. >>All Fours.

• 160 years on from the fighting. >>The Invasion of Waikato.

• On Nine Girls. >>Nine Girls.

• A carousel of lives. >>Parade.

• Janet Frame is still under my pillow. >>Books by Janet Frame.

• A Marxist analysis of Emily Perkins. >>Forms of Freedom. >>Books by Emily Perkins.

• Landscapes of the mind. >>Books by Gerald Murnane.

• Reasons to End Us. >>Books by Tracey Slaughter.

• 3 good excuses.

• A natural extension.

• Solidly in between.

• William Blake’s cottage will be saved.

• Living dolls.

• A feeling for ice.

• Our film recommendation this week: Blood Simple.

• Get the terminology right.

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Issue #227

• A kind of Arctic madness. >>A Woman in the Polar Night.

• What I write about when I write about mermaids. >>The Mermaid Chronicles.

• Luminous attention. >>Enlightenment.

• Gloves on! >>Wrong Norma.

• A crush on a Victorian. >>The Ministry of Time.

• Nocturnal tonguejests. >>Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel.

• You are what you write. >>No Judgement.

• The critic in the internet age. >>No Judgement.

• Kafka himself would have loved them. >>A Cage Went in Search of a Bird.

• Lurching towards constitutional impropriety. >>A Survival Guide.

• Tales of arboreal obsession. >>The Tree Collectors.

• The power of quitting. >>Quit Everything.

• How to design our topography? >>Philosophy of the Home.

• Together with Lorenza Mazzetti. >>The Sky Is Falling.

• Starling.

• Spooky sexy. >>Mrs S.

• Siding with joy. >>Books by Anne Serre.

• Only fifty experts.

• How to become a literary powerhouse.

• Abeceda.

• How to catch a thief.

• Waning days.

• The evolution of the London accent.

• Dominos.

• Our film recommendation this week: Dance First.

• Pooh or Proust?

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Issue #226

• A swish of the tail. >>The Mermaid Chronicles.

• Professional mermaid. >>The Mermaid Chronicles.

• Dolphin Princess. >>Whaea Blue.

• Our unconscious desires. >>Scaffolding.

• On remembering to touch base with yourself. >>Scaffolding.

• The magic of paying attention. >>Like Love.

• The conversations she wants to be having. >>Like Love.

• What we learn about Kafka from his uncensored diaries. >>Diaries.

• Emily goes to Hollywood. >>Lioness.

• Janet Frame at 100. >>The Edge of the Alphabet forthcoming from Fitzcarraldo Editions!

• Each page is a load.

• Life after life. >>Metamorphoses.

• One snapshot. >>Glorious People.

• Your words used your way will generate your meanings. >>Vagabonds!

• The reading kind.

• Education in the ‘good old days’.

• Killer collections.

• What you know but don’t know that you know.

• Our film recommendation this week: The Painter and the Thief.

• Paradise.

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Issue #225

• A walk backwards. >>Whaea Blue.

• “I always think I know better than Pākehā men in corduroy pants.” >>Whaea Blue.

• Another kind of love story. >>Splinters.

• Libido Re Mi. >>All Fours.

• A cultural sore spot. >>Liars.

• So many of my ideas get lost. >>Doppelganger.

• Dissolving the glue. >>Your Duck Is My Duck.

• The Georg Complex.

• What makes people unique?

• Chillingly familiar.

• Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud.

• The Sun considered as a cool solid.

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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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