Trevor Berrett 
Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is a beautiful film that engages beautifully with its complex subject, the Japanese author Yukio Mishima. The Criterion Collection recently released it on Blu-ray, and it’s one of my favorite releases of the year . . . or ever.
It’s time for the annual Fiction Issue of The New Yorker. Here we have David Gilbert’s “Fungus.”
It’s time for the annual Fiction Issue of The New Yorker. Here we have Karen Russell’s “Orange World.”
It’s time for the annual Fiction Issue of The New Yorker. Here we have Lu Yang’s “Silver Tiger,” translated from the Chinese by Eric Abrahamsen, with assistance from the Nanjing Youth Literary Talent Project.
To celebrate 50 years of the Man booker Prize, the Golden Man Booker Prize Shortlist has been announced. This list is composed of judges’ choice for the best Booker winner of each of the five decades.
Robert Aickman is a master of the strange short story. NYRB Classics has just released a collection of 15 of his stories, entitled Compulsory Games.
The American writer Philip Roth has died at 85. The early days of The Mookse and the Gripes were filled with reviews of his work, and I still look back on reading many of these with fondness. Here is a brief remembrance.
This year’s Man Booker International Prize winner has been announced — and the Shadow judges agree!
Frank Borzage’s 1948 film Moonrise is a lyrical noir with a lot to love but with some significant problems. The strengths, though, make it worth grappling with. The Criterion Collection recently released Borzage’s late film on home video.
This week’s New Yorker story is Ben Marcus’s “Stay Down and Take It.”