What Boddah You?: The Authenticity Debate What Boddah You?: The Authenticity Debate
If there's one thing everyone agrees on about Hawaii writer Lois-Ann Yamanaka, it's that she has a perfect ear for local pidgin dialects, which change cadence and idiom througho...
Feb 11, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Mindy Pennybacker
Narnia Born Again Narnia Born Again
For 300 years, Christopher Wren's Sheldonian Theater has been the center of ceremonial life at Oxford.
Jan 14, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Michael Joseph Gross
Coupling and Uncoupling Coupling and Uncoupling
The most striking thing about Couples is the novelist's attempt to break out of the intimist, unpolitical, miniaturist mold that had become his official bust.
May 13, 1968 / Books & the Arts / Jose Yglesias