A Simple Favour starts as a sleek, twisty thriller before revealing an increasingly dark heart – a tricky balancing act that fizzles in and out. Director Paul Feig is probably best known for his string of Melissa McCarthy comedies including Bridesmaids (2011), The Heat (2013), Spy (2015), and Ghostbusters (2016) so he might not be…
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Short story lovers must read this beautifully devastating new Akiyuki Nosaka collection
There is a paradox in all great short stories: they leave large marks that bely their stature. Like a tiny comet crashing to Earth, they are brilliantly devastating forces of nature that make a hell of a profound impact.
Lost and found: The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm is a novel yearning for discovery
Often when reading narratives that decide to play with time, jumping back and forth without warning, I wonder if the book would hold up as well if it were rearranged in chronological order.
The dark, beautiful magic of reading Russian master Gaito Gazdanov’s stories for the first time
There’s a tenderness within Gazdanov that seems to recall Carson McCullers or Anne Tyler
Why you should read You Were Never Really Here in one sitting
And when the narrative stops on a dime after an ice-cold 97 pages, you’re left wanting more.
The jury is in for Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Execution of Justice
The case is open and shut. But when the incarcerated murderer hires a disreputable lawyer to investigate the possibility that it was someone else, the case inverts into a claustrophobic entanglement of red tape, sin and checkered pasts.
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