Stephen Frears’s 1984 crime film The Hit makes its way onto Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection this week. It’s a great vehicle for its two stars, Terence Stamp and John Hurt, and a film that surprised me again and again.
Marilynne Robinson continues to expand the universe of Gilead, Iowa, with her fourth book in the series, Jack. I find these books to be healing and beautiful, and Jack is one of the best among them.
This week The Criterion Collection is releasing Henry King’s 1950 Western, The Gunfighter, starring Gregory Peck. It’s well worth your time.
The Criterion Collection has announced what they’ll be releasing in January of 2021.
This week’s New Yorker fiction is Roddy Doyle’s “Life Without Children.”
This year’s Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded — and it’s gone to a great American poet!
This week’s New Yorker fiction is David Rabe’s “Suffocation Theory.”
