A volume of critical interpretations of significant modern films features observations about such works as "Brokeback Mountain," "World Trade Center," and "Troy," accompanied by insights into the theater and literature.

Raymond Carver's complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the recently discovered "last" stories, found a decade after Carver's death, are published for the first time. Includes all of Carver's prose previously collected, and five stories found recently among his papers.

"Enthralling essays on the expatriate experience in Paris and shrewd literary criticism by one of the twentieth century's finest writers. Mavis Gallant is revered as one of the finest short story writers of her generation, but she was also an astute observer and formidable reporter. This selection of Gallant's essays and reviews written between 1968 and 1985 begins with her impressions of the Parisian student uprising in May 1968-originally published...

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