From the monthly archives: November 2008

Long Lost James Thurber/A History of Childrens’ Lit

On November 30, 2008 By Rachael Scarborough King

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 [...]

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Issue 3 Available Now

On November 16, 2008 By From the Editors

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 [...]

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Fast Times at Ridgemont High [the book, out of print]

On November 9, 2008 By From the Editors

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 [...]

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Aiding Violence

On November 3, 2008 By From the Editors

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 [...]

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