The pleasures of summer mornings are more compelling than alarm clocks. Bird song can wake a person before dawn, chasing sleep with anticipation for what might be accomplished in the hours when nothing is expected, when responsibility has not yet taken charge of the...

Pinsker, Sanford Forward 11-05-2004 Jonathan Rosen came to wide public attention, first as the editor (for some 10 years) of this newspaper's highly regarded Arts & Letters section, and then as the author of "Eve's Apple" (Random House Inc., 1997), an impressive debut...

["Joy in the Morning"] is the story of the first year in the marriage of a pair very much in love—a subject with incontrovertible appeal—but it is nowhere near as appealing as Miss Smith's first book. An air of familiarity, of the déjà vu, pervades the story. Already, in the opening scene, the sense of expectancy so necessary to engage the reader is dulled by an intimation of what to expect….