The trailer for Gabe Polsky’s film adaptation of John Williams’ 1960 western Butcher’s Crossing has been released. Nicolas Cage tells Entertainment Weekly that his performance as buffalo hunter Miller was inspired in part by watching Michael Jordan on the court.
Frequent Bookforum contributor Charlotte Shane has started a Substack, Meant for You. In the first entry, she writes about binge-reading romance novels in an attempt to get more acquainted with bestsellers: “The underlying desires are so clear, the yearning so intelligible: to be worshipped and thirsted after by the hottest man alive, who loves you just as you are, is never threatened by your girl boss side or put off when you cry, and could not, can not, simply WILL NOT EVER get it up for anyone else.”
On September 30, n+1 magazine is hosting a launch party to celebrate the first books from Winter Editions, a new press founded by Matvei Yankelevich. Authors Richard Hell, Garth Graeper, Emily Simon, and Marina Tëmkina will read new work.
At the New Yorker, Merve Emre reviews Minna Dubin’s new book, a follow-up to two New York Times essays from 2019 and 2020 on “mom rage.” Dubin’s book is fettered by the author’s pervasive moralism, Emre writes. “It is wrenching to witness how much she needs others to affirm that both she and her son are good, instead of understanding how they can be good to, or good for, each other.”
A new essay cluster is up at Post45, edited by Stephanie Foote and focused on the theme of “stuckness.” Contributors analyze works including Jenny Offill’s Weather, poet Solmaz Sharif’s collection Customs, and Ling Ma’s Severance.
