Written Reviews

Ernest Hemingway: “Pursuit as Happiness”

June 1, 2020

For the 2020 Summer Fiction issue, The New Yorker has published a previously unpublished story by Ernest Hemingway, “Pursuit as Happiness.”

Anniversaries Readalong: June 3 – 9, 1968

May 31, 2020

Come here to talk about Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries, covering June 3 – 9, 1968.

2020 Best Translated Book Award Winner

May 29, 2020

The 2020 Best Translated Book Award winner has been announced!

John Cassavetes: Husbands

May 29, 2020

John Cassavetes divisive 1970 film Husbands looks at three men struggling with their mortality and with the roles they play as husbands. Is it a misogynistic relic from fifty years ago, or is it a surprisingly progressive look at the ugly roles men play that wreck everyone, including themselves.

David Means: “Two Nurses, Smoking”

May 25, 2020

This week’s New Yorker fiction is “Two Nurses, Smoking,” by David Means.

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