From the yearly archives: 2008
The New Haven Review is on Chrismukkah break! We’ll be back in 2009 with new web-only features. Meanwhile, check out the PDFs of issue #3 at newhavenreview.com.
—The Editors
Continue Reading →By Shirley Jackson (Penguin edition, 1997; orig. pub. Farrar and Rinhart, 1953)
There are scads of books about motherhood out there, and obviously most are crap. I’m okay with that; I know I can always re-read Shirley Jackson’s Life Among the Savages. Last week, I sent an email to a friend who was going mad [...]
Continue Reading →We’re delighted that we’re not the only literary enterprise on the lookout for under-appreciated books and authors. We’re not even the best or most practiced at the hunt. Here are three places to go to find out about books that have probably flown below, around, or mysteriously through your radar:
1) The [...]
Continue Reading →James Thurber, “The 13 Clocks” (New York Review Children’s Editions, 2008)
Seth Lerer, “Children's Literature: A Reader's History” (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
It wasn’t a dark and stormy night. Most likely, it was a long, boring summer afternoon at my English grandparents’ Oxfordshire country house. I would have been rambling around the motionless [...]
Continue Reading →We are delighted to inform you that Issue 3 of the New Haven Review, featuring essays, fiction, poetry, and photographs from Jim Knipfel, Jess Row, Willard Spiegelman, George Witte, Stephen Ornes, Ian Ganassi, Nick Antosca, Joy Ladin, and Desirea Rodgers is available now. We'll have the entire issue online shortly, but if you'd like to [...]
Continue Reading →By Cameron Crowe (Fireside, 1981, out of print)
The wonderfully renovated and highly relevant magazine Harper’s has recently collected articles from its pages into a volume called Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine. The idea, its editor, Bill Wasik, has said, is that in these times we [...]
Continue Reading →By Peter Uvin (Kumarian Press, 1998)
The various governmental and nongovernmental organizations that practice international development work—USAID, the World Bank, the IMF, sundry UN organs—are often accused of seemingly contradictory things. One critic paints these organizations as deeply cynical, another as imperialist. Still another decries them as hopelessly naïve. But one criticism all sides repeat [...]
Continue Reading →“Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired”
Directed by Marina Zenovich
THINKFilm, 2008 “Polanski: A Biography”
By Christopher Sandford
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
Probably no one would dispute the three most important facts of Roman Polanski's life: First, in 1943, the concentration-camp incarceration of his father and murder of his pregnant mother by the [...]
Continue Reading →First things first: the issue #3 launch party will be at Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street, New Haven, from 6pm to 8pm. Please come!
Second, we are thrilled that after we wrote about essayist Lee Sandlin, an undiscovered literary treasure, an agent on our email list contacted him, they got together, and [...]
Continue Reading →With photographs by Norman Mauskopf and an essay by Randall Kenan (Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publishers, 1996)
On a slim, black cover floats a young boy’s face; on the spine, the title; on the back, authors’ names. Nothing more. This format proclaims primary loyalty to the photographs inside: more than fifty images of late-twentieth-century African-American [...]
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