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Andrés Barba: Such Small Hands

August 17, 2017

The starting point for this strange little novel by Spanish novelist Andrés Barba was a ghastly game in a Brazilian orphanage in the 1960s. Trevor takes a look at Barba’s Such Small Hands, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman.

The Criterion Collection Announces November 2017 Releases

August 16, 2017

Today The Criterion Collection announced its November 2017 releases.

Giveaway! César Aira’s The Little Buddhist Monk & The Proof

August 16, 2017

Two books in one? For free? Two books by the great César Aira, no less? Yes! Come in to join the giveaway!

Ronald Neame: Hopscotch

August 15, 2017

This week, The Criterion Collection is releasing a new edition of Ronald Neame’s Cold War spy comedy/thriller Hopscotch, starring Walter Matthau as a rogue agent out to pester and taunt the CIA. Trevor takes a look.

Garth Greenwell: “An Evening Out”

August 14, 2017

This week’s New Yorker story is Garth Greenwell’s “An Evening Out,” apparently a nice companion to his debut novel What Belongs to You.

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