Martin Amis: “Oktober”
This week’s New Yorker fiction is Martin Amis’s “Oktober.” Read the full post and join the conversation.
This week’s New Yorker fiction is Martin Amis’s “Oktober.” Read the full post and join the conversation.
Once again, I had the great pleasure of joining in on a conversation with The CriterionCast, this time to discuss William Cameron Menzies’s 1936 film Things to Come, helmed — and some would say hampered — by H.G. Wells. Read the full post and find a link to the podcast.
This year’s National Book Award winners have been announced. Read the full post.
In my second post for the Criterion Blogathon, I write about another all-time favorite film, Hiroshi Shimizu’s 1936 masterpiece, Mr. Thank You. Read the full post.
Trevor reviews Barbara Comyns’s 1950 novel Our Spoons Came from Woolworths, recently published in a new edition by NYRB Classics.
Today The Criterion Collection is releasing their restored editions of Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy, including the films Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956), and Apur Sansar (1959). Trevor, who had never seen them before but who now considers them among his favorite films of all time, shares his thoughts on the films and on the Criterion edition. Read the full post.
Today The Criterion Collection announced what it will be releasing next February. Read the full post.
This week there’s a Criterion Blogathon, and I’m excited to take part in today’s series of posts with my thoughts on one of my favorite films of all time: David Lean’s 1945 film Brief Encounter. Read the full post.
This week’s New Yorker fiction is Ann Beattie’s “Save a Horse Ride a Cowgirl.” Read the full post and join the conversation.