From the yearly archives: 2008
By Max Gross (Skyhorse Publishing, 2008)
Quick prefatory remark: a lot of people love Geoff Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage, a book about his inability to write the book he really wants to write, a critical study of D. H. Lawrence. Now, I love OOSR too, but unlike most of its fans, [...]
Continue Reading →By Joseph Heller (Alfred A. Knopf, 1972)
Imagine a book densely packed with and surrounded by mathematics, and it’s unlikely you’ll have imagined a novel. But consider these early lines:
In the office in which I work there are five people of whom I am afraid. Each of these five people is afraid of four [...]
Continue Reading →By Jeff VanderMeer (Tor Books, 2006)
Shriek: An Afterword is a book of books. In its setting and some elements of its plot, it is a work of fantasy about a surreal city called Ambergris. It is also a personal drama, as its literary narrative style mixes — sometimes sentence for sentence [...]
Continue Reading →By Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape, 2004)
Recently, more Americans than ever are getting to know Anne Enright, whose novel The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. But almost nobody here has read Making Babies, which has yet to find an American publisher. It’s hard to describe the fascination [...]
Continue Reading →By Sarah Pemberton Strong (Alyson Books, 2002)
When I was a kid, my family used to go to the Caribbean for vacation in the summer. Once, on a beach in Barbados, I watched a conch fisherman in the rough surf right off shore, just a man with a set of fins, a long metal pole, [...]
Continue Reading →As the above title suggests, the New Haven Review's hiatus continues. In the meantime, we commend to your attention John Stoehr's review of Dispatches in America, the first issue released by Dispatches, a quarterly journal and website concern with a fascinating mission and Continue Reading →
The New Haven Review's August hiatus from reviews begins this week as we line up website reviews for the fall and edit Issue 3 of the print edition, which will appear in November. (Yes, we hope to throw another party. We can't help ourselves.)
We would also like to remind New Haven-area readers that our [...]
Continue Reading →The spindly, aphoristic poetry of Kay Ryan, our new poet laureate
If Emily Dickinson, as Ted Hughes once suggested in his exquisite, under-read introduction to A Choice of Emily Dickinson’s Verse, combined “the riddle and the hymn,” Kay Ryan has selected the margin and the aphorism. Ryan is a gleaner, a poet [...]
Continue Reading →By Eliot Asinof (orig. pub. 1955; reissue by Southern Illinois University Press, 1998)
The writer Eliot Asinof is best known for Eight Men Out, a history of the 1919 Black Sox baseball gambling scandal. Those who are unfamiliar with the book might recognize its title because of the popular 1988 John Sayles [...]
Continue Reading →Another reminder: The New Haven Review's Summer Book Group at Labyrinth Books continues tomorrow, July 23, with Mark Oppenheimer leading a discussion of Richard Price's Lush Life, in which Price turns his unflinching eye on the new New York. As before, we bring the discussion; Labyrinth [...]
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