Stranger Shores book by J.M. Coetzee
Peter Ibbetson
At sixty-one years of age, the South African novelist J.M. Coetzee has crafted several treasures of contemporary fiction, including his most recent novel, Disgrace. The only author ever to win…
2013
Monograph: We Built This Suburb by Carey Seal
Everyone agrees that America’s cities are in trouble. The familiar complaints about “urban blight” and overcrowded slums now seem almost quaint compared to the actual problem of wholesale desertion: the…
Party of the People book by Jules Whitcover Grand Old Party book by Lewis L. Gould reviewed by David Noyola
Bipartisan Reading Incisive accounts of the Democratic and Republican parties When the tenor of politics is inflamed, partisan bickering precludes historical perspective. As attacks and recriminations pile up, politicians and…
Profs’ Picks
What’s on the nightstand of Yale’s Professors Dudley Andrew Professor of Comparative Literature, Co-Chair & DGS of the Film Studies Program I’m such a follower when it comes to “free…
Finis by Joshua Foer
“We have arrived at the Brave New World that seemed so distant in 1932, when Aldous Huxley wrote about human beings being born in what he called a `hatchery.’” So…
The Furies by Fernanda Ebserstadt, reviewed by Daniel Kluger
The Furies by Fernanda Ebserstadt Knopf, 464 pp, $26.00 reviewed by Daniel Kluger The Furies, Fernanda Eberstadt’s fourth, and most ambitious, novel to date, examines the complexities of motherhood, femininity,…
My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey, Reviewed by Teddy Goff
My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey Knopf, 288 pp, $24.00 reviewed by Teddy Goff My Life as a Fake culls its epigraph and much of its structure from…
The Holy Grail by Richard Barber, reviewed by Momo Sugawara
The Holy Grail by Richard Barber Harvard, 488 pp, $27.95 Reviewed by Momo Sugawara The literary and historical mystery of the Holy Grail has been a recurring motif in Western…