Written Reviews

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh: “A, S, D, F”

May 24, 2021

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s “A, S, D, F.”

The Criterion Collection Announces August 2021 Releases

May 17, 2021

The Criterion Collection has announced what they’ll be releasing in August 2021.

Keith Ridgway: “The Party”

May 17, 2021

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Keith Ridgway’s “The Party.”

Jean-Luc Godard: Masculin féminin

May 14, 2021

Recently The Criterion Collection released a Blu-ray upgrade of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1966 film Masculin féminin. While I have always struggled to embrace Godard’s work, this one got me in the right space.

Jack Spicer: After Lorca

May 13, 2021

Jack Spicer’s After Lorca is a wonderful collection of poetry, poetry in translation, and poetry theory. I loved it!

Previous Next

Listen In

Episodes of The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast: discussions of books and authors, shaped by curiosity, rereading, and the pleasures of talking things through.

Browse all episodes

The Reading Life

The Mookse and the Gripes Instagram features a more immediate space with posts and videos about current reads, recent finds, including a steady dose of Criterion films.