From the monthly archives: November 2009
Philip Roth, The Humbling, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 140 pp, $22.00
In The Humbling, Philip Roth has created a three-act tragedy for famed stage actor Simon Axler, now in his mid-sixties. In act one, “Into Thin Air,” Axler mysteriously loses his ability to act, his wife leaves him to his misery, and he finally checks himself [...]
Continue Reading →Yesterday, a beautiful sunny day in New Haven, the NHR crew began its hand-delivery of issue #5. A video crew was on hand to capture the happenings:
Continue Reading →1999, to be exact. On Saturday, the New Haven Review took over Lyric Hall, the antiques and restoration house on Whalley Avenue. Owner John Cavaliere has retrofitted the old vaudeville space in the back, and so what choice did we have but to throw a party to celebrate issue #5?
First, we [...]
Continue Reading →Pulitzer-prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey, who is currently the James Weldon Johnson Fellow at the Beinecke, is reading at that august repository of valuable manuscripts, 121 Wall St., this Wednesday, Nov. 18th, at 4 p.m. Read my discussion of her book Native Guard here.
Local poet Don Barkin, author of That Dark Lake, will be [...]
Continue Reading →The Dirty Pond's second issue is now up, with work from Christina O'Connor, Greg Maurer, Patricia Dickson, Ryan Cyr, Derek Leka, and yours truly (though don't hold that against them). The Dirty Pond is New Haven's newest literary outlet, dedicated to showcasing the talent that New Haven harbors and creates. Submit to [...]
Continue Reading →In previous essays here at the New Haven Review, I've written about the death of letter writing and about my misty memories of flyers around downtown that proclaimed "New Haven is the Paris of the 80s." I wondered who it was that put up those flyers, and thanked them for their efforts, and expected nothing [...]
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“Nutrinos have mutated into a new kind of nuclear particle. They’re heating up the earth’s core.”
“It’s the biggest solar climax in recorded history.”
“Don’t you see the signs?”
“California’s going down!”
“All our scientific advances, our fancy machines! The Mayans saw [...]
Continue Reading →Some months ago, I wrote a little thing for the New Haven Review about my love for Shirley Jackson's book Life Among the Savages. I've just gone back and looked at the date on the piece (which can be found here on the website) and my word, it was almost a year ago I wrote [...]
Continue Reading →OBIE Award winner Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed, playing through Nov. 14 at the Yale Rep, is set in the camp of a rebel Liberian warlord in 2003. There we meet three women: two are his ‘wives,’ which means: forced into service, sexual and otherwise, for the man they call the C.O. The third woman, younger, [...]
Continue Reading →This weekend's New York Times had a great article about the New Haven Improvisers Collective, an awesome—and extremely welcoming—group of musicians who gather on the last Monday of every month at Neverending Books on State Street to explore the range of possibilities that improvised music has to offer. As [...]
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