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The 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner

June 7, 2017

This year’s winner of Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced.

Alice Munro: “Eskimo”

June 2, 2017

Trevor and Betsy share their thoughts on Alice Munro’s “Eskimo,” from The Progress of Love.

César Aira: The Proof

June 1, 2017

Trevor reviews César Aira’s The Proof, translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor. New Directions published this in a twofer that includes Aira’s The Little Buddhist Monk.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Mysterious Object at Noon

June 1, 2017

Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 2, recently released by The Criterion Collection, contains the debut feature from current master Apichatpong Weerasethakul, his 2000 film Mysterious Object at Noon.

César Aira: The Little Buddhist Monk

May 31, 2017

New Directions has just released a new book containing two new-to-English novellas by the great César Aira: The Little Buddhist Monk and The Proof, each translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor. In this post, Trevor writes about The Little Buddhist Monk, which he considers to be one of the best Aira novellas in years.

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