An excerpt from a Free Press conversation between historian Niall Ferguson and Bari Weiss, newly named editor-in-chief at CBS News. Listen to the whole thing here . Meanwhile, an excerpt below: It’s been two years since the October 7 massacre. Over at The Free Press, the event was remembered with with an hour-long conversation about […]| The Book Haven
This peppery 1970 letter from director Stanley Kubrick to James T. Aubrey, then president of the MGM , comes to us courtesy Clarence Major. P.S. Whoops! Snopes has the scoop on this one: “The facsimile was traced back to its source, a satire website called Gloss News. It appeared in an article published on 31 May 2014 […]| The Book Haven
Join us at 7 p.m. (PST) on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, when Another Look presents Yoko Ogawa’s 2003 The Housekeeper and the Professor, a surprising story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family. The hybrid event will take place in Stanford’s Levinthal Hall, at […]| The Book Haven
Another Look interviews Yōko Ogawa and translator Stephen Snyder, author of The Housekeeper and the Professor On Tuesday, September 16, Another Look will spotlight Yōko Ogawa’s The Housekeeper and the Professor, a surprising story about what it means to live in the present and about the curious equations that can create a family. Don’t forget to […]| The Book Haven
Archivist extraordinaire Elena S. Danielson (at right) kindly took me out to the Stanford Faculty Club for lunch last week. The kindness didn’t stop with the tiramisu. The former director of the Hoover Library & Archives also gave me a new edition of Rainer Maria Rilke‘s “Larenopfer” – to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the […]| The Book Haven
Please join us at 7 p.m. (PST) on Tuesday, September 16, when Another Look presents Yoko Ogawa’s The Housekeeper and the Professor, a surprising story about what it means to live in the present and about the curious equations that can create a family. The hybrid event will take place in Stanford’s Levinthal Hall, Hall […]| The Book Haven
