Winter03 – Yale Review of Books

Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy book by John Armstrong reviewed by Allie Stielau

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I'll confess that I am a sappy romantic who enjoys watching teeny-bopper comedies despite their repetitive, unoriginal plots. I sometimes cave to the temptation of reading Rosamunde Pilcher and Maeve…

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Finis by Elizabeth Archibald

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Like many of my classmates, I have spent a large percentage of senior year wondering what my Yale education adds up to and which career paths are still open to…

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Surreality TV by Raina Lipsitz

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"I wish I could have been different with Aaron," says a tearful Angela as she is driven away from the harem house of ABC's "The Bachelor." The large, black limousine…

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How to Like Poetry and Why by Allie Stielau

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Why don't more Americans read poetry? Reviewing Marie Ponsot's newest collection of poems in The New York Times Book Review, David Orr offered this explanation: “One of the best things…

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can’t judge a cover by its book by Lucas Hanft

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When designers are faced with the challenge of capturing the essence of a book in its cover, they are working in a single dimension. When the book becomes a movie,…

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Profs’ Picks

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Joan Steitz Sterling Professor of Molecular Biology & Biophysics; Investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute For me, reading Rosalind Franklin, the Dark Lady of DNA, by Brenda Maddox, has been…

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Letter to an Undergraduate from Annabel Patterson

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Advice to anyone over fifty: Shun the advice mode. Its best known model is Polonius, and we all know what happened to him. Stuck through the belly, behind an arras,…

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Cloud of Sparrows book by Takashi Matsuoka reviewed by Su Mon Han

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Takashi Matsuoka's first novel takes us to 1861, six years after the opening of Japan to the West. Genji, the young, charismatic Great Lord of Akaoka, welcomes a small group…

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“The Little Friend book by Donna Tartt reviewed by Sonja Ostrow”

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Writers, like pop stars, are often one-hit wonders. Assignation to this category seemed to be the fate of Donna Tartt, whose intellectual thriller The Secret History was published in 1992.…

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The Seven Sisters book by Margaret Drabble reviewed by Marisa Knox

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What would literary heroines of old have done without an inheritance? Would Jane Eyre have met Rochester again on her own terms? Would Isabel Archer have been the prey of…

Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy book by John Armstrong reviewed by Allie Stielau

Finis by Elizabeth Archibald

Surreality TV by Raina Lipsitz

How to Like Poetry and Why by Allie Stielau

can’t judge a cover by its book by Lucas Hanft

Profs’ Picks

Letter to an Undergraduate from Annabel Patterson

Cloud of Sparrows book by Takashi Matsuoka reviewed by Su Mon Han

“The Little Friend book by Donna Tartt reviewed by Sonja Ostrow”

The Seven Sisters book by Margaret Drabble reviewed by Marisa Knox

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