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Masaki Kobayashi: Kwaidan

October 20, 2015

Today, The Criterion Collection is releasing a Blu-ray edition of Masaki Kobayashi’s 1965 film Kwaidan, a collection of Japanese ghost stories. Kwaidan benefits greatly from this upgrade. Trevor looks at the film and the new Criterion edition. Read the full post.

Kent Haruf: Our Souls at Night

October 20, 2015

Lee reviews Kent Haruf’s final book, Our Souls at Night. Read the full post.

Enrique Vila-Matas: The Illogic of Kassel

October 19, 2015

P.T. Smith reviews Enrique Vila-Matas’s The Illogic of Kassel, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean and Anna Milsom and released by New Directions. Read the full post.

Lesley Nneka Arimah: “Who Will Greet You at Home”

October 19, 2015

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Lesley Nneka Arimah’s “Who Will Greet You at Home.” Read the full post.

William Sloane: The Rim of Morning

October 16, 2015

William Sloane’s only two novels, 1937’s To Walk the Night and 1939’s The Edge of Running Water, were recently published in one volume by NYRB Classics as The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror. Trevor reviews the delightful volume. Read the full post.

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