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Qiu Miaojin: Last Words from Montmartre

June 5, 2014

Trevor reviews Qiu Miaojin’s novel, Last Words from Montmartre, translated from the Chinese by Ari Larissa Heinrich. This is the manuscript Qiu left behind when she committed suicide in 1995, at the age of twenty six. Read the full post.

Ingmar Bergman: Persona

June 4, 2014

Trevor reviews Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 film, Persona, recently released on Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection. Read the full post.

2014 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner

June 4, 2014

This year’s winner of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. Read the full post.

Jane Gardam: “Hetty Sleeping”

June 3, 2014

Lee reviews “Hetty Sleeping,” the first story in The Stories of Jane Gardam, just out today in the U.S. from Europa Editions and published last month in the U.K. by Little, Brown. Read the full post.

Ramona Ausubel: “You Can Find Love Now”

June 2, 2014

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Ramona Ausubel’s “You Can Find Love Now,” one of the four selected for the summer fiction issue. Trevor shares his thoughts. Read the full post.

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