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Agnieszka Smoczynska: The Lure

October 10, 2017

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

Tessa Hadley: “Funny Little Snake”

October 9, 2017

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.

Jean Giono: Melville: A Novel

October 6, 2017

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.

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature

October 5, 2017

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

Orhan Pamuk: The Red-Haired Woman

October 4, 2017

Paul reviews Orhan Pamuk’s most 2016 novel, The Red-Haired Woman, translated from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap.

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