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Bryan Washington: “Heirlooms”

July 27, 2020

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Bryan Washington’s “Heirlooms,” an excerpt, or, as they call it here, an adaptation from Washington’s forthcoming novel Memorial.

Anniversaries Readalong: July 29 – August 4, 1968

July 26, 2020

Come here to talk about Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries, covering July 29 – August 4, 1968.

Abbas Kiarostami: Taste of Cherry

July 21, 2020

Here are some of my thoughts on Abbas Kiarostami’s 1997 film, Taste of Cherry, which has just been re-released in a new home video edition by The Criterion Collection.

Shirley Jackson: “The Lottery”

July 20, 2020

This week The New Yorker takes us back to a classic, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.”

Anniversaries Readalong: July 22 – 28, 1968

July 19, 2020

Come here to talk about Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries, covering July 22 – 28, 1968.

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