Tue, Oct 25, 2005, 12:00am
Every day people turn their noses up at unfamiliar food, claiming they don't eat sushi because it's raw fish, escargot because it's snails, or foie gras because it's liver.
Tue, Oct 25, 2005, 12:00am
Each autumn when the first blast of chilly air rips down Broadway, my belly rumbles for warm pasta and red wine. After catching sight of my breath last Thursday, I knew that a hearty Italian fix was in my dinner plans.
Mon, Oct 24, 2005, 12:00am
"People don't understand how difficult it is to give away money well." Such is the inspiration behind Han Ong's novel The Disinherited, which came out in paperback this September.
Mon, Oct 24, 2005, 12:00am
I have received many random gifts in my lifetime, but perhaps the most inexplicable came during the gift-giving jackpot of high school graduation, when my mother presented me with The Catholic Girl's Guide to Sex.
Mon, Oct 24, 2005, 12:00am
Only two hours after I began turning the pages of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking did I finally manage to tear my nose from its print and wonder why it had absorbed me so completely. Unlike a detective story, it has no trail of clues that shimmer with the promise of an answer.
Mon, Oct 24, 2005, 12:00am
The Diviners by Rick Moody is an intentionally difficult book to become intimate with.
Mon, Oct 24, 2005, 12:00am
Mon, Oct 24, 2005, 12:00am
Forty-one students will travel all over the world to research environmental sustainability on the Earth Institute's dime, officials announced last Tuesday.
Mon, Oct 24, 2005, 12:00am
Chinese Students Accuse Yale of Unfair Treatment
A group of Chinese graduate students have accused Yale professors and administrators of unfair treatment, including pressuring Chinese students to leave their departments, threats of fellowship losses, and frequent advisor changes.
Mon, Oct 24, 2005, 12:00am
Human rights advocates gathered on Thursday for their own version of a fireside chat with President Lee Bollinger.
The participants, all members of this year's Human Rights Advocates Program, met with Bollinger Thursday to discuss the success of the program thus far.
