Helen DeWitt

For those in or near New York, the following events have been planned to mark the reissue of The Last Samurai: Saturday July 30 7:30 pm Helen DeWitt and Timo Andres,THE LAST SAMURAI, an evening of music and readingTickets $20 National Sawdust80 N 6th StreetBrooklyn, NY11249 Sunday July 31 5pm and 9pm Screenings of Kurosawa’s… Read more: THE LAST SAMURAI : Events

New Directions officially reissued The Last Samurai on May 31, 2016.  Astute readers will notice that this website does not properly reflect the new state of affairs: the pages relating to The Last Samurai refer to the Miramax edition.  Both Cyberduck and Filezilla have failed to let me connect to my webhost and upload a… Read more: The Last Samurai: New Directions reissue

This website was set up in 2005.  Anyone looking at the news items of the last 6 years could be forgiven for thinking that nothing ever happens; there seems to be an Event about once a year. This is not actually the case.

For Auld Lang Syne. May 2011 Work in Krakow Photomonth in collaboration with Elizabeth McAlpine 2 April 2011 Reading from ‘Awesome, or The Internet as Consolation’, from special edition of the Review of Contemporary Fiction on Failure: MoMA P.S. 1, 22-25 Jackson Ave (at the intersection of 46th Ave), Long Island City, NY 11101, 3-5pm… Read more: Yesterday’s headlines