April Witch book by Majgull Axelsson
Peter Ibbetson
The award-winning Swedish novel April Witch is the dark and powerful tale of Desirée, a severely disabled woman abandoned at birth by her mother to spend her entire life in…
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House of Women book by Lynn Freed
“My mother keeps every key to her house on a ring attached to her bag,” says seventeen-and-a-half-year-old Thea early in Lynn Freed’s beautifully told fifth novel, House of Women .…
Video book by Meera Nair
Meera Nair’s first book, Video , is a collection of ten short stories with a wide range of settings and protagonists. She moves from a small Indian village to Phoenix,…
The Black Veil book by Rick Moody
In the preface to The Black Veil, Moody writes that the “book and my life are written in fits, more like epilepsy than like a narrative,” clarifying his description of…
Finis: Cornering the Market by Elizabeth Archibald
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…
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…