Summer03 – Yale Review of Books

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Cagney and Lacey by Raina Lipsitz

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Cagney and Lacey first aired on network television in 1981, after the unexpected success of a made-for-TV movie by the same name inspired CBS to take a chance on a…

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Aldous Huxley: A Biography book by Nicholas Murray reviewed by Michael Obernauer

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Review Provided by SNDA Online. In a 1952 interview with the New York Herald Tribune, Aldous Huxley described himself as “an essayist who sometimes writes novels and biographies.” “I know…

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Letter to an Undergraduate from Toni Dorfman

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This issue's contributor, Toni Dorfman, is a playwright and an associate professor of Theater Studies at Yale. Her plays include Family Wolf and Rounding Cassiopiea. Dear Student, Your heart is…

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In Short

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Mismatch: The Growing Gulf between Women and Men, by Andrew Hacker (Scribner; $25) Inequality in the boardroom and infidelity in the bedroom are complicating relationships between the sexes like never…

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Profs’ Picks What’s on the nightstands of Yale’s Professors

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Amy Bloom Lecturer, English Department My summer reading ranged from the minor (the Robert Tannenbaum mysteries—with Butch Karp, the DA with the soul of a Jewish mother and his sexy,…

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After book by Francine Prose reviewed by David Lau

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They say it's for your protection. First, it's the increase in metal detectors. Then, the search and seizures. Random drug tests. Censored books. After the tragedy, you hear that it's…

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Any Human Heart: The Intimate Journals of Logan Mounstuart book by Arthur Phillips reviewed by Christopher Grobe

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Those familiar with William Boyd's past antics cannot help but approach his latest work, Any Human Heart, in a lighthearted manner. After all, this latest novel is inextricably linked to…

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The Da Vinci Code book by Dan Brown reviewed by Marissa Ain

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The latest art history mystery by Dan Brown is a fast-paced book that is hard to put down. With deliciously short chapters that usually end in cliff-hangers, The Da Vinci…

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix book by J.K. Rowling reviewed by Emma Pollack-Pelzner

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A few weeks ago I mentioned to a group of friends that I was working on a review of the new Harry Potter book. Most of them scoffed and tittered,…

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Samaritan book by Richard Price reviewed by Dan Mattingly

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Read the first few pages of Samaritan, Richard Price's latest epistle from the ghetto, and it's clear Price wants this book to be a serious thriller. It begins with a…

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Health & Wellness Philosophy

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