Written Reviews

Phil Klay: Redeployment

July 30, 2014

Lee reviews Phil Klay’s Redeployment (2014), a finalist for this year’s Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Read the full post.

Cynthia Bond: Ruby

July 30, 2014

Betsy has been reviewing stories and poems for this site for years, and here is her first book review, for Cynthia Bond’s debut novel Ruby. Read the full post.

Jacques Demy: Bay of Angels

July 29, 2014

From The Criterion Collection’s recent release of The Essential Jacques Demy, Trevor reviews Demy’s second feature film, Bay of Angels, from 1963. Read the full post.

Flann O’Brien: The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien

July 29, 2014

Amanda reviews The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien, which contains five stories originally written in Irish and translated by Jack Fennell and nine stories originally written in English. The Dalkey Archive Press edition also contains a fragment from O’Brien’s unfinished novel, Slaterry’s Sago Saga. Read the full post.

Paul Theroux: “Action”

July 28, 2014

This week’s story from The New Yorker is Paul Theroux’s “Action.” Read the full post.

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