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Kamila Shamsie: Home Fire

August 24, 2017

Paul reviews Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire, a reworking of Antigone set in the modern day which is a Man Booker Prize contender.

Sacha Guitry: La poison

August 23, 2017

This week The Criterion Collection is releasing Sacha Guitry’s 1951 film La poison, starring the great Michel Simon. Trevor reviews the film.

Lee reviews Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones, the book that won last year’s Goldsmiths Prize, set up to “celebrate qualities of creative daring” and to “reward fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form.” The book is also a contender for this year’s Man Booker Prize.

Lauren Groff: “Dogs Go Wolf”

August 21, 2017

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Lauren Groff’s “Dogs Go Wolf.”

Alice Munro: Friend of My Youth

August 18, 2017

Betsy and Trevor are moving on to the latter half of Alice Munro’s career, starting their story-by-story examination of her 1990 collection Friend of My Youth. This post provides an overview of the book as well as links to the reviews as they post.

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