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Rachel Kushner: “Fifty-Seven”

November 23, 2015

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Rachel Kushner’s “Fifty-Seven.”

2015 National Book Award Winners

November 19, 2015

This year’s National Book Award winners have been announced. Read the full post.

Hiroshi Shimizu: Mr. Thank You

November 19, 2015

In my second post for the Criterion Blogathon, I write about another all-time favorite film, Hiroshi Shimizu’s 1936 masterpiece, Mr. Thank You. Read the full post.

Barbara Comyns: Our Spoon Came from Woolworths

November 18, 2015

Trevor reviews Barbara Comyns’s 1950 novel Our Spoons Came from Woolworths, recently published in a new edition by NYRB Classics.

Today The Criterion Collection is releasing their restored editions of Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy, including the films Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956), and Apur Sansar (1959). Trevor, who had never seen them before but who now considers them among his favorite films of all time, shares his thoughts on the films and on the Criterion edition. Read the full post.

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