Written Reviews

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh: “Last Meal at Whole Foods”

July 21, 2014

This week’s story from The New Yorker is Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s “Last Meal at Whole Foods.” Betsy offers her thoughts. Read the full post.

David Cronenberg: Scanners

July 16, 2014

Trevor reviews David Cronenberg’s 1981 science-fiction/horror film, Scanners, released this week in a dual-format edition from The Criterion Collection. Read the full post.

Peter Weiss: Leavetaking

July 15, 2014

In his first review for The Mookse and the Gripes, P.T. Smith reviews Peter Weiss’s 1961 novel, Leavetaking, translated from the German by Christopher Levenson, and just reissued by Melville House in their Neversink Library. Read the full post.

Greg Jackson: “Wagner in the Desert”

July 14, 2014

This week’s New Yorker fiction is a debut from Greg Jackson: “Wagner in the Desert.” Read the full post.

Jean-Patrick Manchette: The Mad and the Bad

July 10, 2014

Trevor reviews Jean-Patrick Manchette’s 1972 crime novel, The Mad and the Bad, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith. The book comes out next week, and I recommend you do some odd chores over the weekend if you need to so you have some spare cash to pick it up. Read the full post

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