Written Reviews

Wim Wenders: The American Friend

January 14, 2016

Trevor reviews Wim Wenders’ 1977 film The American Friend, an adaptation of Paticia Highsmith’s novel Ripley’s Game, which was released this week Blu-ray by The Criterion Collection. Read the full post.

The Story Prize Finalists

January 13, 2016

The Story Prize has announced its three finalists. Read the full post.

Andrés Neuman: The Things We Don’t Do

January 13, 2016

Trevor reviews Andrés Neuman’s collection of short stories, The Things We Don’t Do, translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia. Read the full post.

Giuseppe De Santis: Bitter Rice

January 12, 2016

Trevor reviews Giuseppe De Santis’s 1949 Italian film Bitter Rice, which was released on Blu-ray by The Criterion Collection today. Read the full post.

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya: “The Story of a Painter”

January 11, 2016

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s “The Story of a Painter,” translated from the Russian by Anna Summers. Read the full post and join the conversation.

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