Queries: an interview with Ha Jin
Peter Ibbetson
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…
Features
Cagney and Lacey by Raina Lipsitz
Cagney and Lacey first aired on network television in 1981, after the unexpected success of a made-for-TV movie by the same name inspired CBS to take a chance on a…
Philosophers in Conversation by Samuel Phineas Upham
If you’re interesting in learning what is happening in philosophy today, you must read this collection! In “Philosophers in Conversation: Interview from the Harvard Review of Philosophy,” Editor Samuel Phineas…
A Lady’s Choice? by Raina Lipsitz
Although I’m still reeling from ABC’s “The Bachelor,” I decided to give the network a second chance when I tuned in last Wednesday night (9/8 Central) for “The Bachelorette.” After…
Letter to an Undergraduate from Christy Anderson
Christy Anderson is an associate professor of History of Art. Her publications include Inigo Jones and the Classical Tradition and The Built Surface: Architecture and Pictures. She is currently writing…
Shipwreck by Louis Begley, reviewed by Russell Brandom
Shipwreck by Louis Begley Knopf, 256 pp, $23.00 reviewed by Russell Brandom Shipwreck is a deceptively simple novel, and it relishes in the fact that it is telling a very…
Profs’ Picks
Dudley Andrew Professor of Comparative Literature, Co-Chair & DGS of the Film Studies Program I’m such a follower when it comes to “free range reading.” It was Dick Brodhead– as…
Letter to an Undergraduate from Toni Dorfman
This issue’s contributor, Toni Dorfman, is a playwright and an associate professor of Theater Studies at Yale. Her plays include Family Wolf and Rounding Cassiopiea. Dear Student, Your heart is…
In Short
Mismatch: The Growing Gulf between Women and Men, by Andrew Hacker (Scribner; $25) Inequality in the boardroom and infidelity in the bedroom are complicating relationships between the sexes like never…
Profs’ Picks What’s on the nightstands of Yale’s Professors
Amy Bloom Lecturer, English Department My summer reading ranged from the minor (the Robert Tannenbaum mysteries—with Butch Karp, the DA with the soul of a Jewish mother and his sexy,…