Finis: Cornering the Market by Elizabeth Archibald
Peter Ibbetson
Charles Frazier has it made. When the author of award-winning debut Cold Mountain signed a book deal featuring an advance of more than $8 Million, he had presented only a…
July 2013
Can’t judge a cover by its book by Lucas Hanft
Long before we were admonished about racial profiling, we were instructed on the horrors of all superficial considerations through the mother of all finger-wagging reminders: don’t judge a book by…
New Haven is Reading… Bestsellers…
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. Atonement, Ian McEwan (Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday, $26.) 2. The Nanny Diaries, Emma McLaughlin (St. Martin’s, $24.95.) 3. Summons, John Grisham (Doubleday,$27.95.) 4. The Golden One, Elizabeth…
Queries: an interview with Ha Jin
Ha Jin, the acclaimed Chinese American poet, novelist, and master of the short story, has been writing in English for a little over a decade. After serving in the Chinese…
Written in Wood at Yale 200 book by Janet Stimson
Yale sociologist Janet Stimson’s new book, Written in Wood: Yale at 200, gives an insightful if sparse account of the university and New Haven at the turn of the 20th…
What’s on the nightstand of Yale’s Professors…
Over spring break, the YRB staff asked faculty members to tell us what they were reading “for fun.” Here are their picks… Sidney Altman Professor of MCDB and Chemistry I’m…
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories book by Alice Munro
By turns both lovely and frustrating, Alice Munro’s book of nine new stories, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, offers a realistic window into life’s misfortunes and truths, its delicate moments…
Half a Life book by V.S. Naipaul
Half a Life plunges the reader into the middle of a story and ends, half a life distant, at the beginning of another. V. S. Naipaul continues the boundary-exploring work…
Atonement book by Ian McEwan
People invent stories to defend or promote themselves, to entertain or challenge or plead with their audience, to offer some vision of the world as it should be, and to…
The John Fante Reader edited by Stephen Cooper
Sadly, it is one of the curses of their trade that great novelists often lead lives that resemble bad novels. Like a romance novel or a mystery, the literary pantheon…