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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Issue #192.

• Experiencing the world differently. >>Bird Life.

• Part poetry, part electricity. >>Cuddy.

• The quiet revolution in Māori art. >>Ki Mua, Ki Muri.

• Behind the page. >>The short list.

• You’ll never make yourself fall asleep. >>Sleepless.

• Beware the Balrog! >>Fire Weather.

• “Language has deserted me.” >>Minor Detail.

• Without the confidence of commitment. >>Some Things Wrong.

• Dubious rhymes.

• A bookseller recommends.

• Translators aloud.

• Making Homer modern. >>The Iliad. >>The Odyssey.

• Lost for words.

• Paintings in Proust. >>The Way by Swann’s.

• Who’s coming?

• A feeling of total freedom. >>Not in the Future Library.

• Coral tongues.

• The astonishing behaviour of recursive sequences.

• Our film recommendation this week: Brief Encounter.

• Sarah Laing’s year of excellent reading.

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Issue #191

• The tyranny of the image. >>The Words for Her.

• That was a joke. >>I Hear You’re Rich.

• Little that has not already happened. >>Gunflower.

• How to read one another. >>Cold Enough for Snow.

• But is it a ‘sports novel’? >>Western Lane.

• Aspiring to pastlessness. >>The Delivery.

• Going home. >>A walk through fifty years of occupation.

• The displaced person: a syllabus.

• The unexpected relevance of medieval monsters.

• 1,000,000 laundry lists.

• Meet the LLMs.

• Our film recommendation this week: My Childhood.

• An end to homelessness.

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Issue #190

• Not a catastrophe. >>Books by Fosse.

• Rays from another star. >>Star 111.

• Unruly bodies. >>Art Monsters.

• Off by heart. >>Remember Me.

• Recognising the stranger. >>Enter Ghost.

• Quiet Night. >>Nails and Eyes.

• Page turner. >>Pulped fiction.

• Like a washed corpse. >>Books by Jaeggy.

• Nightshade.

• Shrinking the size of Hell. >>Books by Calvino.

• Books and resistance.

• Kafka’s Prague. >>Kafka socks, anyone?

• A graphic design archive.

• Our film recommendation this week: White Riot.

• Pardon my French.

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Issue #189

• Through a mouth mostly open. >>Split Tooth.

• Sincerity leads nowhere. >>The Possessed.

• Cultural concepts. >>Rewi.

• “We need writers more than ever.” >>Against silencing. >>Read Thomas’s review of Minor Detail.

• Down the rabbit hole. >>Doppelganger.

• Poetry by heart. >>Remember Me.

• A connoisseur of the specific. >>Louise Gluck: Poems, 1962—2020.

• Musicality on the page. >>Divisible by Itself and One.

• Turkey’s feminist autofictionalist. >>Cold Nights of Childhood.

• Autopsies on the body of nature. >>Read Thomas’s review of Gargoyles.

• The city and the writer. >>Invisible Cities. >>Visible Cities.

• Grammar changes how we see.

• Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin.

• Our film recommendation this week: Detour.

• Blown, battered, and bottled.

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Issue #188

• Gestures of refusal. >>Study for Obedience.

• Apocalyptic thinking. >>End Times.

• The story reteller. >>The Plague.

• Can you conquer death by depicting your life on paper? >>Beyond the Door of No Return.

• “You must invent to tell the true story.” >>Star 111.

• Making New Zealand. >>Blood and Dirt.

• The Quaker Comet. >>The Fearless Benjamin Lay.

• The chairman’s Fosse favourites. >>Septology

• A Nobel in the living room. >>Transit’s edition of Septology.

• What was literary fiction?

• Literature is needed in cruel and painful times. >>Thomas’s review of Minor Detail.

• Poetic science. >>How to Be a Good Creature.

• Physical things retain memory. >>Collection of Sand.

• William Blake’s printing process.

• The journey that matters. >>Some books by Le Guin.

• The rise of dystopian fiction.

• For goodness’ sake.

• An innovative subversion of the male gaze. >>Boy Parts.

• Translation, sheep, &c.

• London in November.

• Superstitions About Animals.

• Our film recommendation this week: Gagarine.

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