Spring02 – Yale Review of Books

Homosexuality and Civilization book by Louis Crompton reviewed by Margaret Fox

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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…

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Finis: Cornering the Market by Elizabeth Archibald

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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…

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Can’t judge a cover by its book by Lucas Hanft

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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…

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New Haven is Reading… Bestsellers…

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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…

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Queries: an interview with Ha Jin

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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…

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Written in Wood at Yale 200 book by Janet Stimson

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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…

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What’s on the nightstand of Yale’s Professors…

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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…

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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories book by Alice Munro

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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…

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Half a Life book by V.S. Naipaul

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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…

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Atonement book by Ian McEwan

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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…

Homosexuality and Civilization book by Louis Crompton reviewed by Margaret Fox

Finis: Cornering the Market by Elizabeth Archibald

Can’t judge a cover by its book by Lucas Hanft

New Haven is Reading… Bestsellers…

Queries: an interview with Ha Jin

Written in Wood at Yale 200 book by Janet Stimson

What’s on the nightstand of Yale’s Professors…

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories book by Alice Munro

Half a Life book by V.S. Naipaul

Atonement book by Ian McEwan

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