For this installment of What We’re Reading— a series in which New Yorker staffers share their literary engagements of the week— Caleb Crain writes about Charles Williams’s supernatural thrillers:  http://nyr.kr/WKmOoY 

Richard Brody on “Hitchcock,” the new bio-pic about the making of “Psycho”:

“Hitchcock” isn’t a great film, but it tells a great story and caps it with a couple of very fine and memorable moments—and the story it tells is one that rises from deep in the heart of the movie business and remains central to the industry today…

Richard Brody: “Given a choice, I’d rather see a movie by a good bad director than one by a bad good one…”