Looking Backward A compendium of the early work of an American literary master In his 1986 introduction to a set of Paris Review interviews, John Updike quoted Philip Roth: “What…
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…
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…
The Magic Touch An insider explains the history of stage illusions From time to time, magic and its modern practitioners still steal into the spotlight—even without counting the wily tricks…
Playing by the Rules In her twenty-second novel, Anita Brookner stays true to form In response to Anita Brookner’s third novel, critic Caryn James referred to what had at that…
“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…
Peter Ibbetson