Books
What To Read This Summer
We here at Flyby asked some of Harvard's brightest minds for summer reading recommendations. Here's what they suggested.
Protest Nation Launches
A crowd of 50 or so gathered in the posh rooftop residence of the Quincy House Masters on Thursday evening ...
Specialty Bookstores: Stories from the Square
To find book offerings in Cambridge beyond the standard inventory of the Coop, it helps to peruse the city’s streets and read between the buildings.
Palahniuk Goes for Shock, Ends Up with Shlock
Chuck Palahniuk’s fourth book in as many years, “Tell-All,” focuses on the mid-twentieth century world of celebrity, as seen through the eyes of an aging star’s personal assistant.
Pulitzer-Winning Poet Williams Channels Voices from the Canon
Herbert, Hopkins, Goethe, and Dostoevsky are only a few of the voices that C.K. Williams conjures in his new collection, “Wait.”
Group Teaches Active Use of Literature
Responding to the economic crisis and ensuing political corruption that hit Argentina in 2001, the poor, unemployed citizens of Buenos Aires took to the streets to sell cardboard.
Justin Keenan ’10
“My inspiration has always come from my teachers,” says Justin T. Keenan ’10. Keenan
Peter Carey
Peter Carey, two-time Booker Prize-winning author, spoke at Brattle Theatre Monday evening. His audience enjoyed readings from his latest book, "Parrot and Olivier in America", a comic, historical fiction novel that explores American democracy.
Shield's Modernist Manifesto Arrives a Few Decades Too Late
Like a scarlet letter, an accusation of plagiarism is perhaps the most devastating fate that can befall a man or woman of letters.
Paterson’s ‘Rain’ Pours Poems
On the brink of the 19th century, in the Scottish town of Dumfries, the poet Robert Burns wrote: “the honest man, tho’ e’er sae poor / Is king o’ men for a’ that.”
Goldstein Opens Up Religious Discussion in ‘36 Arguments’
“36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction” doesn’t settle any of the questions it raises, but it certainly edifies, entertains, and provokes.
Anne Carson’s ‘Nox’ Is a Creative Tribute and Farewell
In her latest book, “Nox,” poet Anne Carson uses Catullus’ elegy as a lens through which to understand the death of her own brother.
Today in Photos (04/14/10)
Author Robert Whitaker speaks at the Harvard Bookstore about his new book, "Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America."
AMERICA'S DISABILITY
Author Robert Whitaker speaks at the Harvard Bookstore about his new book, "Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America."