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The Criterion Collection Announces January 2017 Releases

October 18, 2017October 16, 2017 by Trevor Berrett

Today The Criterion Collection announced its January 2018 releases. Guess what! The Eclipse Viewer will be returning!

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October 16, 2017 by Trevor Berrett

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Denis Johnson: “Strangler Bob”

October 16, 2017 by Trevor Berrett

This week’s New Yorker story is “Strangler Bob,” from Denis Johnson, who passed away earlier this year.

Categories Denis Johnson, New Yorker Fiction Tags 2017 New Yorker Fiction 7 Comments

Anita Brookner: A Start in Life

October 11, 2017 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor looks at Anita Brookner’s amazing debut, A Start in Life.

Categories Anita Brookner, Book Reviews Tags 1980s, 1981 2 Comments

Agnieszka Smoczynska: The Lure

October 10, 2017 by Trevor Berrett

This week, The Criterion Collection is releasing Agnieszka Smoczynska 2015 horror musical, The Lure.

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Tessa Hadley: “Funny Little Snake”

November 2, 2017October 9, 2017 by Trevor Berrett

This week’s New Yorker story is Tessa Hadley’s “Funny Little Snake.” It’s always a treat to get a new story from Hadley.

Categories New Yorker Fiction, Tessa Hadley Tags 2017 New Yorker Fiction 27 Comments

Jean Giono: Melville: A Novel

October 6, 2017 by Trevor Berrett

In the late 1930s, Jean Giono worked to translated Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick into French for the first time. To accompany the new edition, Giono provided a strange, fictional introduction to Melville the man, instead giving us a lovely look at Melville our imagined author.

Categories Book Reviews, Jean Giono Tags 1940s, 1941, French, NYRB Classics 1 Comment

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature

October 5, 2017 by Trevor Berrett

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature has been announced, and to one of our favorites!

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2017 National Book Award Shortlists

October 4, 2017 by Trevor Berrett

The 2017 National Book Award Shortlists have been announced.

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October 2017: Books to Read

October 2, 2017 by Trevor Berrett

October is always the time of year where I feel like settling down with a good book. Here are several coming out this month that excite me the most.

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