Peter Ibbetson
Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology edited by David L. Ulin reviewed by Alex Lee
Five years ago, the Los Angeles Public Library started a new line of posters, featuring a large picture of a…
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books book by Azar Nafisi reviewed by Sonja Ostrow
Fiction was not a panacea,” Azar Nafisi writes late in Reading Lolita in Tehran, “but it did offer us a…
Finis by Elizabeth Archibald
Like many of my classmates, I have spent a large percentage of senior year wondering what my Yale education adds…
Surreality TV by Raina Lipsitz
“I wish I could have been different with Aaron,” says a tearful Angela as she is driven away from the…
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,…
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…
Profs’ Picks
Joan Steitz Sterling Professor of Molecular Biology & Biophysics; Investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute For me, reading Rosalind Franklin,…
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…
Cloud of Sparrows book by Takashi Matsuoka reviewed by Su Mon Han
Takashi Matsuoka’s first novel takes us to 1861, six years after the opening of Japan to the West. Genji, the…
“The Little Friend book by Donna Tartt reviewed by Sonja Ostrow”
Writers, like pop stars, are often one-hit wonders. Assignation to this category seemed to be the fate of Donna Tartt,…