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Richard Ford: “Displaced”

July 30, 2018

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Richard Ford’s “Displaced.”

Alex Pheby: Lucia

July 26, 2018

Paul reviews Alex Pheby’s Lucia, a novel about Lucia Joyce, daughter of James Joyce’s and lover of Samuel Beckett, who has, after spending the last 30 years of her life in an asylum, almost been erased from history.

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger: A Matter of Life and Death

July 25, 2018

This week The Criterion Collection released Powell & Pressburger’s 1946 film, A Matter of Life and Death, and it’s a beautiful presentation of one of the most acclaimed films of all time.

2018 Man Booker Prize Longlist

July 23, 2018

This year’s Man Booker Prize longlist has been (officially) announced!

T. Coraghessan Boyle: “I Walk Between the Raindrops”

July 23, 2018

This week’s New Yorker fiction is T. Coraghessan Boyle’s “I Walk Between the Raindrops.”

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