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David Rabe, Girl By The Road At Night, NY: Simon and Schuster, 228 pgs.
One could say that David Rabe is obsessed with the Vietnam War. Best known for a trio of award-winning plays in the '70s that deal with that conflict and its effect on those who fought in it, Rabe has more recently [...]
Continue Reading →Eveline
by James Joyce
read by Bennett Lovett-Graff
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Digital sound recorder in hand, we consider this the first of, we hope, several experiments in sound recordings of the written word by and from the New Haven Review.
In this case, attached as an MP3, and thus [...]
Continue Reading →Katharine Weber, True Confections, Shaye Areheart Books, 274 pp, $22
Katharine Weber’s True Confections takes the form of an affidavit by Alice Ziplinsky, née Tatnall, aka Arson Girl, a New Haven resident who has become the de facto head of Zip’s Candies, through a series of events -- both mishaps and good fortune -- that [...]
Continue Reading →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 →Just for fun I recently re-read Italo Calvino’s If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler (1979; trans. 1981), which I first read around 1983 and was enchanted by. My memory of the novel has always been a reference point whenever anyone discusses fictional sleight-of-hand, as with Borges, or Cortázar, or Barth, or what-have-you. Calvino’s version [...]
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