Author Archives: Adam Gardner

The object of a book of selected poems, one imagines, is two-fold. It functions first of all as a general introduction to a body of work, allowing us to access small portions of individual collections so that we may begin to recognize thematic and stylistic trends. Additionally, the book’s structure (almost always chronological) encourages us »

Late in Tinling Choong’s GRD ’07 novel “FireWife,” Nin, an Asian-American woman who has recently left her corporate job in an attempt at self-discovery, finds herself having an existential crisis: Should she or shouldn’t she cheat on her husband? “An inner voice whispering in [her] ears” explains that, “Some cherries are like fish, some are »

For those of you who haven’t seen the extremely long and incredibly fun trailers, “Because I Said So” is a tale of love, life, family and post-menopausal sex. Diane Keaton plays Daphne, a mother desperately attempting to find a man for her youngest (and clearly favorite) daughter and caterer-extraordinaire, Milly (played by the always naive »

Langdon Hammer enrolled as an undergraduate at Yale in 1976. The next year, he applied for and was accepted into a verse writing seminar led by the poet and critic John Hollander. For Hammer, the course proved vital in shaping what would become a life-long love for and dedication to the study of poetry. In »

On the night of Oct. 19, the Yale Bookstore played? host to the final act of a drama that has played itself out for nearly 40 years. Warren Kimbro — convicted murderer, ex-felon and, according to a new book by Paul Bass and Douglas W. Rae, a changed man — offered a final apology. “Murder »