From the monthly archives: June 2008
Just a reminder: The New Haven Review's Summer Book Group at Labyrinth Books continues this Wednesday, July 2, with Tom Gogola leading a discussion of Alex Ross's The Rest is Noise. Quite possibly this discussion will include demonstration, as Tom is an excellent guitar player.
Hope [...]
Continue Reading →By John Kricher and Roger Tory Peterson, with illustrations by Gordon Morrison (Houghton Mifflin, 1988)
Pity the poor “reference” book — sturdy and uncomplaining, plastic-bound for a dictionary stand or a doctor’s office or, in the case of Peterson Field Guides, a backpack. Need, rather than pleasure, drives us to seek it out. What a [...]
Continue Reading →By Mircea Cărtărescu (trans. Julian Semilian; New Directions, 2005)
Despite living in a part of the world in which the future is necessarily the most fertile ground, Romanian writer Mircea Cărtărescu has encamped himself in the past. And not the official past of dull, stultifying life under communism, but the idealized, oneiric past that is [...]
Continue Reading →If you're here because you've followed the link from Rachel Donadio's generous mention of us (thanks!) in the New York Times blog Paper Cuts, welcome. Please have a look around. Our weekly reviews appear right here on this page; you can find the contents of the print editions Continue Reading →
Usually, we use this Monday post to recommend an unfairly neglected book. Today we’d like to introduce you to an unfairly neglected writer.
I’m now at that biblical age (New Testament age, anyway) of thirty-three, which is about when many of us decide that we know the names of all the good writers we’ll need [...]
Continue Reading →Attention interested parties: Tom Gogola's discussion of The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross, which was once to transpire on June 25, will now happen on July 2. Thanks again to Labyrinth Books for accommodating our fickle nature. Mark Oppenheimer's and Steven Stoll's discussions of Lush Life and A Brief [...]
Continue Reading →By Ted Berrigan (Edited by Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan, and Edmund Berrigan; University of California Press, 2005)
I had a friend at high school called Andy Mitchell (Mitch) who had the knack of befriending anyone he happened to meet and charmingly cadging anything from confidence to cigarettes to sex. No Charles Ryder, [...]
Continue Reading →We got a very nice shout-out in on The Atlantic’s blog from Ross Douthat, who has a piece in our new print issue. Ross, being a New Haven native, is of course a good soul.
Continue Reading →By Emil Hakl (Translated by Marek Tomin; Twisted Spoon Press, 2008)
On page two of Emil Hakl’s Of Kids & Parents, when you find out that for the rest of this novel, a father and son will walk around Prague and talk about life, an ill-advised Continue Reading →
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