Written Reviews

Louise Erdrich: LaRose

July 29, 2016

Trevor reviews Louise Erdrich’s LaRose. Read the full post.

The 2016 Man Booker Prize Longlist

July 27, 2016

The 2016 Man Booker Prize longlist has been announced. Read the full post.

CriterionCast 174: Ingmar Bergman’s Summer with Monika

July 26, 2016

Once again, I had the great pleasure of joining in on a conversation with The CriterionCast, this time to discuss Ingmar Bergman’s 1953 film Summer with Monika. Read the full post and find a link to the podcast.

Joshua Ferris: “The Abandonment”

July 25, 2016

This week’s New Yorker story is Joshua Ferris’s “The Abandonment.” Read the full post.

William Trevor: Love and Summer

July 22, 2016

Lee reviews William Trevor’s 2009 novel, Love and Summer, which “can’t, of course, end well,” but that is “brilliant, devastating, and masterfully wrought.”

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