ISSUE 01 · 9 OCTOBER 2026

Friday with Volumain

Three books for the weekend, one new edition and an author worth meeting.

Exit Party

Emily St. John Mandel

For a speculative puzzle with questions about the price of possible worlds.

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The Things We Never Say

Elizabeth Strout

For an intimate encounter with the loneliness that can remain invisible inside a community.

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One Sun Only

Camille Bordas

For a weekend divided into separate encounters rather than one long narrative.

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New Polish edition: The Answers

Catherine Lacey’s novel appeared in the featured Polish edition on 7 October 2026. A job in a study of ideal love makes intimacy subject to somebody else’s rules. Choose it for a more unsettling end to the weekend.

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Meet Tove Jansson beyond the Moomins

The Finnish artist wrote in Swedish and created fiction for adults alongside the Moomin books. Her interest in solitude, closeness and life by the sea offers a route into The Summer Book. The link between the two bodies of work is an invitation to explore, not a reason to expect the same reading experience.

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