Creative Works
Martin Rubin on ‘Freuds’ War’
WASHINGTON TIMES Friday, March 26, 2010 REVIEWED BY MARTIN RUBIN Helen Fry, Freuds' War. The History Press/Trafalgar Square. 223pp. $29.95 Illustrated. By Martin Rubin It’s not often that a reviewer gets to point out just how the apostrophe is placed in the book’s title, but for those of us who…
March 26, 2010
Martin Rubin on ‘Mrs. Adams in Winter’
Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon By Michael O'Brien Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27 384 pages, illustrated Reviewed by Martin Rubin in The Washington Times, Mar. 19, 2010 This enthralling, vividly written book tells the story of an amazing journey in extraordinary…
March 19, 2010
Martin Rubin on Isaiah Berlin Letters
Isaiah Berlin ENLIGHTENING LETTERS 1946-60 Edited by Henry Hardy and Jennifer Holmes. Trafalgar Square. 845pp. $50. Illustrated. By Martin Rubin, The Washington Times, Feb. 26, 2010 More than a decade since Sir Isaiah Berlin died aged 88 in Oxford, loaded with honors and distinctions academic and…
February 26, 2010
Rubin on ‘FDR’s Deadly Secret’
The Washington Times January 11, 2010 FDR'S DEADLY SECRET By Steven Lomazow, M.D. and Eric Fettman Public Affairs, $25.95, 259 pages, illus. Book Review: When the president takes ill By Martin Rubin The story of just how ill Franklin Delano Roosevelt was during his presidency---and especially…
January 12, 2010
Rubin on Hilary Mantel’s ‘Wolf Hall’
A Man for All Tasks and Times Wall Street Journal, October 10, 2009 By Martin Rubin Although less famous than his great-great-grandnephew Oliver, Thomas Cromwell is well-known, thanks to the enduring fascination of Henry VIII and the Tudor court. Cromwell is of course a memorable villain in the…
December 7, 2009
Two Yale Students Seek Our Reminiscences
By way of the AYA, we've received an invitation from two current Yale students to contribute to a commemorative publication honoring the 40th anniversary of coeducation: We are Isabel and Emily, two students in Yale College [Emily is Branford '10]. We major in English and Art, and English and…
November 5, 2009
Rubin on ‘Harvard Beats Yale 29-29’
HARVARD BEATS YALE 29-29 By Kevin Rafferty Overlook Press, $35, 175 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY MARTIN RUBIN, The Washington Times, October 18, 2009 This book not only tells the story of one of the most historic and exciting college football games in the Ivy League, but also provides a marvelous…
October 20, 2009
Rubin on ‘Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law’
Giving all the lawyers their due The Washington Times, Thursday, July 23 2009 The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law Edited by Roger K. Newman Yale University Press, $65, 622 pages, illus. Reviewed by Martin Rubin Many readers are quick to dismiss reference books as dry, dull…
October 20, 2009
Alexis Krasilovsky Film Screening at Yale Club in NY Oct. 26
Alexis Krasilovsky writes: I'm looking forward to a special screening of my film "Women Behind the Camera" at the Yale Club of New York City on October 26 at 6 PM. Please come! I am delighted to report that the shorter version of the film, titled "Shooting Women," screened on September 14 at the…
October 7, 2009
Book Talk on Mary Hallock Foote in Denver Oct. 23
Chrissy Citron invites anyone who'll be in the Denver area on Oct. 23 to an illustrated lecture co-sponsored by the Colorado Yale Association: COLORADO CENTER FOR LITERATURE AND ART & COLORADO YALE ASSOCIATION & VASSAR CLUB OF COLORADO WITH THANKS TO THE COLORADO HISTORICAL SOCIETY This…
October 1, 2009