Written Reviews

Jane Gardam: “Lunch with Ruth Sykes”

June 26, 2014

Lee reviews “Lunch with Ruth Sykes,” the second story in The Stories of Jane Gardam. Read the full post.

James Joyce: “The Sisters”

June 25, 2014

Trevor begins his trek through James Joyce’s Dubliners, which turned 100 this month, with the first story, “The Sisters.” Read the full post.

Jeff Vandermeer: Annihilation

June 24, 2014

Trevor reviews the first part of Jeff Vandermeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy, Annihilation (2014). Read the full post.

Peter Weir: Picnic at Hanging Rock

June 23, 2014

Last week The Criterion Collection released a remastered dual-format edition of Peter Weir’s 1975 film Picnic at Hanging Rock, a mysterious film about the disappearance of a group of schoolgirls during a school outing in 1900. Trevor reviews the film and discusses the new Criterion edition. Read the full post.

Rebecca Curtis: “The Pink House”

June 23, 2014

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Rebecca Curtis’s “The Pink House.” Read the full post.

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