From the monthly archives: December 2008

See you in 2009!

On December 28, 2008 By From the Editors

The New Haven Review is on break! We’ll be back in 2009 with new web-only features. Meanwhile, check out the PDFs of issue #3 at

—The Editors

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Life Among the Savages

On December 14, 2008 By Eva Geertz

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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