Russell Banks

Dec 1, 2024 | collider.com | Russell Banks |Liam Gaughan

It’s very surprising that despite being one of the most successful movie stars of the last several decades, Richard Gerehas yet to receive his first Academy Award nomination. Between starring in a Best Picture winner (Chicago), a classic romantic western (Days of Heaven), a beloved romantic comedy (Pretty Woman), an effective legal thriller (Primal Fear), and a fascinating music biopic (I’m Not There), Gere always seems to be passed over, even when his co-stars are recognized.

May 22, 2024 | streetphotographymagazine.com | Russell Banks

A couple of hours after our premium wine tasting, somewhere between Havana and Key West, the Celebrity Apex approached a crowded raft bobbing in the water. I saw a chance to capture a powerful image for my “Floating World” project, so I hurried back to my room, grabbed my Jansport camera pack and raced out onto the deck, hoping to catch lightning in a bottle. I got just six shots that framed our ship with the raft before it was too far behind us. Did I capture the spark that day? Meh.

May 12, 2024 | thephotographicjournal.com | Russell Banks

by Russell C. Banks After 40 years in nursing, my wife’s idea of a well-deserved retirement is kicking back on a cruise ship and being pampered. For years, I only picked up a camera at exotic ports. The ships were just the vehicle—too cluttered and garish for FINE ART. But I’m a maker, so finally I began to photograph my fellow guests on board and ashore, the hard-working crew, the specialized architecture and outlandish decor. Sometimes a photograph reveals something beyond my seeing.

Mar 23, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Russell Banks

Barring some additional posthumous works, AMERICAN SPIRITS will be the final book from the esteemed American writer Russell Banks, who died in January 2023 at age 82. If that’s the case, this volume of three taut and often shocking long stories is a fitting summing up of important preoccupations of Banks’ long and prolific career. Each travels deeply into the lives of ordinary people, while illuminating some of the fissures in contemporary America.

Mar 8, 2024 | shelf-awareness.com | Édouard Louis |John Lambert |Russell Banks |Martin MacInnes

Among the stellar books featured in today's issue, we look at Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead by Lisa Selin Davis, "a clear-eyed cultural appraisal of 'women's work,' and the high price women pay as working mothers"; as well as Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera, which follows a podcast's murder investigation in a small town "with dark humor, propulsive pacing, and a properly confounding whodunit." Plus, Snowglobe by Soyoung Park, an "austere, thrilling, and...