Written Reviews

Elaine May: Mikey and Nicky

January 24, 2019

Elaine May’s Mikey and Nicky is a terrific film that explores toxic masculinity before it even had a name.

Wolfgang Hilbig: The Females

January 22, 2019

Paul reviews the latest Wolfgang Hilbig novel to come out in English, The Females, which is actually Hilbig’s debut. It was recently translated from the German by Isabel Fargo Cole and published by Two Lines Press.

Haruki Murakami: “Cream”

January 21, 2019

This week’s New Yorker story is Haruki Murakami’s “Cream,” translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.

Alice Munro: “A Wilderness Station”

January 18, 2019

Trevor and Betsy take a look at Alice Munro’s “A Wilderness Station,” from Open Secrets.

Raúl Zurita: INRI

January 17, 2019

Raúl Zurita’s INRI is a powerful volume of poetry that makes the sea, mountains, rivers, deserts, and fields of Chile a tomb for the disappeared of Pinochet’s reign. The sky is the tombstone. It’s a stunning book, coming to us now in a translation from the Spanish by William Rowe.

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