Phil Klay: Redeployment
Lee reviews Phil Klay’s Redeployment (2014), a finalist for this year’s Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Read the full post.
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Andreas Maier: The Room
Lee reviews Andreas Maier’s “memoir,” The Room, translated from the German by Jamie Lee Searle, and just out from Frisch & Co. Read the full post.
Jane Gardam: “Lunch with Ruth Sykes”
Lee reviews “Lunch with Ruth Sykes,” the second story in The Stories of Jane Gardam. Read the full post.
Jane Gardam: “Hetty Sleeping”
Lee reviews “Hetty Sleeping,” the first story in The Stories of Jane Gardam, just out today in the U.S. from Europa Editions and published last month in the U.K. by Little, Brown. Read the full post.
Jane Gardam: The Stories of Jane Gardam
Lee introduces his ongoing series reviewing the stories in the new collection, The Stories of Jane Gardam, an author he feels terrible for neglecting all these years, as well he should. Read the full post.
Marek Hlasko: Killing the Second Dog
Lee reviews Marek Hlasko’s 1965 novel, Killing the Second Dog, translated from the Polish by Tomasz Mirkowicz, and recently reissued by New Vessel Press. Read the full post.
John Michael McDonagh: Calvary
Lee reviews John Michael McDonagh’s new film Calvary, starring Brendan Gleeson. Read the full post.
Shane Carruth: Upstream Color
Lee Monks, a new contributor for The Mookse and the Gripes, reviews Shane Carruth’s most recent film, Upstream Color (2013). “All I can encourage you to do is: submit to the strangeness.” Read the full post.