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Haruki Murakami: “Cream”

January 21, 2019

This week’s New Yorker story is Haruki Murakami’s “Cream,” translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.

Alice Munro: “A Wilderness Station”

January 18, 2019

Trevor and Betsy take a look at Alice Munro’s “A Wilderness Station,” from Open Secrets.

Raúl Zurita: INRI

January 17, 2019

Raúl Zurita’s INRI is a powerful volume of poetry that makes the sea, mountains, rivers, deserts, and fields of Chile a tomb for the disappeared of Pinochet’s reign. The sky is the tombstone. It’s a stunning book, coming to us now in a translation from the Spanish by William Rowe.

Ryan O’Neill: Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers

January 16, 2019

Paul reviews Ryan O’Neill’s Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers.

The Criterion Collection Announces April 2019 Releases

January 15, 2019

The Criterion Collection has announced its April 2019 releases.

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