Written Reviews

Joy Williams: “Chaunt”

December 3, 2018

This week’s New Yorker story is Joy William’s “Chaunt.”

Kenji Mizoguchi: A Story from Chikamatsu

November 27, 2018

Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1954 film A Story from Chikamatsu is an under seen masterpiece. Trevor looks at the recent Criterion release.

Jean Stafford: “Children Are Bored on Sunday”

November 26, 2018

This week The New Yorker published two stories from their archive as part of their “Holliday Reading” issue. Here we have Jean Stafford’s “Children Are Bored on Sunday,” which was originally published in the February 21, 1948 issue of the magazine.

John Updike: “Snowing in Greenwich Village”

November 26, 2018

This week The New Yorker published two stories from their archive as part of their “Holliday Reading” issue. Here we have John Updike’s “Snowing in Greenwich Village,” which was originally published in the January 21, 1956 issue of the magazine.

Garth Greenwell: “The Frog King”

November 19, 2018

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Garth Greenwell’s “The Frog King.”

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