Made in America
The Humanities Center at Harvard is staging a symposium this weekend on the publication of the 1,095-page “A New Literary History of America” (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2009). A...
View Article‘Museum of Innocence’
It is 1975, and a young Istanbul businessman, prosperous and settled, walks into a boutique to buy his fiancée a purse. Behind the counter is a distant cousin – long ago a little girl and now gorgeous...
View ArticlePainting pictures in our minds
Novelists are either visual or verbal, Orhan Pamuk said during one of his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. But novels themselves are both. “We give up the perfect painting and the perfect text,” he said...
View ArticleIrony and identity
Kermit the Frog, that celebrated American philosopher of the last century, famously observed that it isn’t easy being green. But if frogs are in trouble, think of the ontological suffering that humans...
View ArticleWriters at Risk
It is June 29, 2004, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Magazine writer Maksim Maksimov, investigating police corruption, gets a tip. He follows an informant to an apartment on Furshtatskaya Street. Five men...
View ArticleThe Living Magazine
During the Iran-Iraq War, Shahriar Mandanipour wrote short stories under fire. He would compose one line at a time between exploding mortar rounds. Back in Tehran after the war, Mandanipour started...
View ArticleFilm explores military tribunal
Fundamental American principles of freedom and justice are at the heart of an unsettling film that was screened at Harvard on May 4. “The Response,” a 30-minute work created by actor, producer, and...
View ArticleThe dark corners of ‘Cabaret’
Aside from her fishnet stockings, singer Amanda Palmer, known for her edgy look and sound, was almost demure in a beige ensemble during a Harvard panel discussion. But the topic was anything but....
View ArticleHarvard Humanities 2.0
Anand Mahindra, scion of one of India’s wealthiest industrial families, arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1973 as a teenager with dreams that went beyond business. He concentrated in film at the...
View ArticleBringing faculty together
With more than 9,000 faculty members studying everything from cancer to Sanskrit, it might seem hard to find common ground at Harvard. “We usually live in our departments, we usually work out of our...
View ArticleArt during wartime
During the Nazi occupation in Paris from 1940 to 1944, the show went on. Even under the brutal reign of the Third Reich, the glow from the City of Lights never dimmed. Its cabarets and nightspots...
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The ripples of Brown v. Board
Martha Minow, a legal scholar and the dean of Harvard Law School (HLS), offered some advice to authors: “Write out of anger. It keeps you going.” She felt ire and dismay over commentary during the 50th...
View ArticleScholarship beyond words
We all know the look of a doctoral dissertation: thick, heavy, and tightly bound. Inside it are phalanxes of paragraphs. Words march past by the thousands. Text-heavy dissertations, after all, are...
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Made in America
The Humanities Center at Harvard is staging a symposium this weekend on the publication of the 1,095-page “A New Literary History of America” (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2009). A...
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‘Museum of Innocence’
It is 1975, and a young Istanbul businessman, prosperous and settled, walks into a boutique to buy his fiancée a purse. Behind the counter is a distant cousin – long ago a little girl and now gorgeous...
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Painting pictures in our minds
Novelists are either visual or verbal, Orhan Pamuk said during one of his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. But novels themselves are both. “We give up the perfect painting and the perfect text,” he said...
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Irony and identity
Kermit the Frog, that celebrated American philosopher of the last century, famously observed that it isn’t easy being green. But if frogs are in trouble, think of the ontological suffering that humans...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Writers at Risk
It is June 29, 2004, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Magazine writer Maksim Maksimov, investigating police corruption, gets a tip. He follows an informant to an apartment on Furshtatskaya Street. Five men...
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The Living Magazine
During the Iran-Iraq War, Shahriar Mandanipour wrote short stories under fire. He would compose one line at a time between exploding mortar rounds. Back in Tehran after the war, Mandanipour started...
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Film explores military tribunal
Fundamental American principles of freedom and justice are at the heart of an unsettling film that was screened at Harvard on May 4. “The Response,” a 30-minute work created by actor, producer, and...
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