Lauren Groff: “Dogs Go Wolf”
This week's New Yorker fiction is Lauren Groff's "Dogs Go Wolf."
Alice Munro: Friend of My Youth
Betsy and Trevor are moving on to the latter half of Alice Munro's career, starting their story-by-story examination of her 1990 collection Friend of My Youth. This post provides an overview of the book as well as links to the reviews as they post.
Andrés Barba: Such Small Hands
The starting point for this strange little novel by Spanish novelist Andrés Barba was a ghastly game in a Brazilian orphanage in the 1960s. Trevor takes a look at Barba's Such Small Hands, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman.
The Criterion Collection Announces November 2017 Releases
Today The Criterion Collection announced its November 2017 releases.
Giveaway! César Aira’s The Little Buddhist Monk & The Proof
Two books in one? For free? Two books by the great César Aira, no less? Yes! Come in to join the giveaway!
Ronald Neame: Hopscotch
This week, The Criterion Collection is releasing a new edition of Ronald Neame's Cold War spy comedy/thriller Hopscotch, starring Walter Matthau as a rogue agent out to pester and taunt the CIA. Trevor takes a look.
Garth Greenwell: “An Evening Out”
This week's New Yorker story is Garth Greenwell's "An Evening Out," apparently a nice companion to his debut novel What Belongs to You.
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