Trevor Berrett 
Robert Walser’s playful and sophisticated four dramolettes, featuring Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and the Christ Child, are now available from New Directions. Trevor reviews Fairy Tales, translated from the German by Daniele Pantano and James Reidel. Read the full post.
The winner of the 2015 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award has been announced. Read the full post.
This past month, The Criterion Collection brought out a title they once had in print on LaserDisc back in the 1990s: Terry Gilliam’s urban chivalric romance The Fisher King. Trevor reviews the film and the new edition. Read the full post.
Today you can pick up an upgrade of The Criterion Collection’s double feature of films based on Ernest Hemingway’s “The Killers,” featuring Robert Siodmak’s 1946 film noir and Don Siegel’s 1964 crime drama (as well as Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1956 student film version). Trevor reviews the new edition. Read the full post.
Trevor and Betsy continue their work through Alice Munro’s The Beggar Maid. Here are their thoughts on “Half a Grapefruit.”
Always excited to delve into the strange worlds Steven Millhauser concocts, Trevor reviews Millhauser’s latest collection of stories, Voices in the Night. Read the full post.
Today The Mookse and the Gripes turns seven! Trevor briefly reflects. Read the full post.
Once again, I had the great pleasure of joining in a conversation at The CriterionCast, this time to discuss Otto Preminger’s 1959 film, Anatomy of a Murder. Read the post and find a link to the podcast.
David and Trevor are back with The Eclipse Viewer 30: Early Fassbinder Part II. Read the full post and get the link to the podcast.
In 1970, riding the last oscillations of the Czech New Wave, director Jaromil Jireš created a phantasmagoric look at a young girls maturation, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, containing the energy and creativity of the Czech New Wave — as well as a healthy dose of its metaphorical subterfuge. Today marks the film’s release on a new Criterion Collection Blu-ray and DVD. Read the full post.