Surreality TV by Raina Lipsitz
Peter Ibbetson
“I wish I could have been different with Aaron,” says a tearful Angela as she is driven away from the harem house of ABC’s “The Bachelor.” The large, black limousine…
Features
How to Like Poetry and Why by Allie Stielau
Why don’t more Americans read poetry? Reviewing Marie Ponsot’s newest collection of poems in The New York Times Book Review, David Orr offered this explanation: “One of the best things…
can’t judge a cover by its book by Lucas Hanft
When designers are faced with the challenge of capturing the essence of a book in its cover, they are working in a single dimension. When the book becomes a movie,…
Profs’ Picks
Joan Steitz Sterling Professor of Molecular Biology & Biophysics; Investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute For me, reading Rosalind Franklin, the Dark Lady of DNA, by Brenda Maddox, has been…
Letter to an Undergraduate from Annabel Patterson
Advice to anyone over fifty: Shun the advice mode. Its best known model is Polonius, and we all know what happened to him. Stuck through the belly, behind an arras,…
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…
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…