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Weekend Thoughts

June 28, 2020

Here are some Weekend Thoughts!

Kon Ichikawa: Tokyo Olympiad

June 23, 2020

This week The Criterion Collection is releasing a new home video edition of Kon Ichikawa’s magnificent documentary Tokyo Olympiad.

Franz Kafka: “The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time”

June 22, 2020

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Franz Kafka’s “The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time,” translated from the German by Michael Hofmann.

Anniversaries Readalong: June 24 – 30, 1968

June 21, 2020

Come here to talk about Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries, covering June 24 – 30, 1968.

Alfred Hayes: The End of Me

June 17, 2020

Trevor looks at Alfred Hayes’s 1968 novel The End of Me, recently released by NYRB Classics.

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