Trevor Berrett 
Buster Keaton’s 1928 film, The Cameraman, is being released today by The Criterion Collection. It’s a stacked edition that does the film justice with a new 4K restoration and goes into the story behind this pivotal — perhaps even tragic — moment in Keaton’s career.
The Criterion Collection has announced what they’ll be releasing in September of 2020.
This week’s New Yorker fiction is Scholastique Mukasonga’s “Grief,” translated from the French by Jordan Stump.
Come here to talk about Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries, covering June 17 – 23, 1968.
Come here to talk about Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries, covering June 10 – 16, 1968.
Paul Dano’s large-hearted debut film, Wildlife, is an exceptional adaptation of Richard Ford’s 1990 novel of the same name. The Criterion Collection recently released this on home video, and I highly recommend it.
NYRB Classics recently published a new translation of Graciliano Ramos’s second novel, São Bernardo, a captivating look at an insecure man trying to hold onto his power.
In their 2020 Summer Fiction issue, The New Yorker has published Emma Cline’s “White Noise.”
As part of their 2020 Summer Fiction issue, The New Yorker has published Haruki Murakami’s “Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey,” translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. This is a sequel to his 2006 story “A Shinagawa Monkey.”
