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
“Often when we see immeasurable suffering, we feel overwhelmed. But every one of us has the capacity to make one person suffer less every day. Every day go forth and do what you can do.” Jul 19, 2025 (Image credits: L.A. Cicero) Fifteen years ago, I had the “Dalai Lama” beat at Stanford. The occasion: […]| The Book Haven
This article and many others from the Stanford News Service are now archived and no longer publicly available. To celebrate this poet, historian, and so much more, I thought I’d make at least this one available to all of you. Enjoy! Robert Conquest is a man of contradictions: He has been called “a comic poet […]| The Book Haven
. “You are in constant dialogue with the voice of shame, the brutal self-critic.“ Jazz pianist Frank J. Barrett received the Jazz Legacy Award from the Tri-C Jazz Festival in Cleveland last week, after a long lifetime in jazz. He certainly deserves it. (I wrote about him a few years ago here.) He is a […]| The Book Haven
Dana Gioia's Hercules Furens is a poetic and critical tour de force. By giving us a translation as graceful, vivid, and natural as the original must have been, he paradoxically brings out its essential strangeness to our sensibility.| The Book Haven