Last summer, the Reverend Gene Robinson became the first openly gay bishop of the Episcopal Church. Though surrounded by a swirl of controversy, Bishop Robinson’s confirmation is remarkable in light…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
Peter Ibbetson