Peter Ibbetson
Kirsti Potter
Alison Brown
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…
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.)…
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…
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories book by Alice Munro
By turns both lovely and frustrating, Alice Munro’s book of nine new stories, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, offers a…
Half a Life book by V.S. Naipaul
Half a Life plunges the reader into the middle of a story and ends, half a life distant, at the…
Atonement book by Ian McEwan
People invent stories to defend or promote themselves, to entertain or challenge or plead with their audience, to offer some…
The John Fante Reader edited by Stephen Cooper
Sadly, it is one of the curses of their trade that great novelists often lead lives that resemble bad novels.…
O Rouse Up, Young Men of the New Age book by Kenzaburo Oe
Since the birth of his mentally handicapped son Hikari more than 30 years ago, Kenzaburo Oe has often drawn on…
The Shell Collector book by Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr likes to list. It’s a style that becomes quickly apparent in the first few stories of The Shell…
My Name is Red book by Orham Pamuk
While the name Orhan Pamuk may not currently arouse great interest in American literary circles, his Turkish compatriots recognize him…