Written Reviews

Alice Munro: “Accident”

January 29, 2016

Trevor and Betsy look at Alice Munro’s “Accident,” from The Moons of Jupiter.

Toshiya Fujita: The Complete Lady Snowblood

January 28, 2016

Trevor reviews Toshiya Fujita’s 1973 film Lady Snowblood and its 1974 sequel Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance, both released in one edition by The Criterion Collection in The Complete Lady Snowblood.

Giveaway! Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Collected Stories

January 27, 2016

The Library of America recently released a three-volume box set of the collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer. The set also comes with their illustrated biography Singer: An Album. It’s beautiful! And I have two to give away! Read the full post and enter the giveaway!

Jakob Wassermann: My Marriage

January 26, 2016

Trevor reviews a book that will surely make his top ten of 2016 list, Jakob Wassermann’s posthumously published autobiographical novel, My Marriage, translated from the German by Michale Hofmann. Read the full post.

Adam Ehrlich Sachs: “The Philosophers”

January 25, 2016

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Adam Ehrlich Sachs’ “The Philosophers.” Read the full post and join the conversation.

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