Trevor Berrett 
Almost exactly fifty years ago, on July 6, 1964, The Beatles made their big screen debut with Richard Lester’s A Hard Day’s Night. Last week The Criterion Collection released a remastered dual-format edition of this revolutionary film. Trevor reviews the film and discusses the new Criterion edition. Read the full post.
This week’s New Yorker fiction is Allegra Goodman’s “Apple Cake.” Read the full post.
Trevor begins his trek through James Joyce’s Dubliners, which turned 100 this month, with the first story, “The Sisters.” Read the full post.
Trevor reviews the first part of Jeff Vandermeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy, Annihilation (2014). Read the full post.
Last week The Criterion Collection released a remastered dual-format edition of Peter Weir’s 1975 film Picnic at Hanging Rock, a mysterious film about the disappearance of a group of schoolgirls during a school outing in 1900. Trevor reviews the film and discusses the new Criterion edition. Read the full post.
This week’s New Yorker fiction is Rebecca Curtis’s “The Pink House.” Read the full post.
The five finalists for this year’s PEN Translation Prize have been announced (with an amazing three of the five coming from NYRB Classics!). Read the full post and get links to the four we’ve reviewed here.
The six finalists have been announced. We’d love to hear your thoughts! Read the full post.
How does a blog called The Mookse and the Gripes go six years without a post on James Joyce? We don’t know, but here we are, showing off the Centennial Edition of James Joyce’s Dubliners. Trevor will be covering each of the stories in the coming weeks/months. Read the full post.
This week’s New Yorker fiction is Maile Meloy’s “Madame Lazarus.” Meloy is a favorite, so it’s always great to get a new short story from her. Betsy shares her thoughts. Read the full post.