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Ishiguro Releases an Accomplished But Mild Collection
“In general it is a matter of experimenting with the different arrangements of one color,” Debussy wrote in 1894 concerning ...
'Rover' Runs Red, if Overlong
“America: I window-peeped four years of our history. It was one long mobile stakeout and kick-the-door-in shakedown. I had a ...
Roth’s ‘Humbling’ Is Erudite, If Apathetic
“Now my charms are all o’erthrown, / And what strenth I have’s mine own, / Which is most faint…” Prospero ...
Pamuk’s ‘Innocence’ a Stylistic Triumph
A thick haze of melancholy floats above every page of the works of Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, settling amidst the ...
Austrian Lind’s ‘Ergo’ a Labor of Post-War Melancholy
As an 11-year-old boy, Jakov Lind (who died in 2007) fled from the Nazi-occupied Vienna to Holland and survived the ...
Orhan Pamuk Lecture 4
Orhan Pamuk delivers his fourth lecture for the Norton Lecture series on "Pictures and Things" in Sanders Theatre, October 20, 2009, 4pm.
The ‘Wall’ in their Own Words
A generation of post-Soviet literary figures write essays and fiction on life in the Bloc
Translation of a Soviet Touchstone
Ilf and Petrov’s brazenly political comedy gets an updated English treatment
Lampoon Publishes 'Twilight' Parody
On Nov. 3, “Twilight” fans can sink their teeth into the newest installment in the vampire saga, penned not by ...
Journalists Explore Oppression of Women
During World War I, more American women died during childbirth than American men fell in combat. And while western countries ...
All Ends Well in ‘Tragedee’
Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” has inspired an abundance of adaptations, from Sergei Prokofiev’s ballet to Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story.”
Vowell Discovers Timeless Humor in U.S. History
With roughly three weeks until elections, the American cultural landscape stands on the precipice of a paradigm shift the like
'How Fiction Works' Works Just Fine, Thank You
I’d love to rip apart English professor James Wood’s distilled volume of literary wisdom with a series of detached, postmodern,
'Global Gap' is Wider at Home
“Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between
'Cop' Reveals Human hood
In terms of popular culture, the year 2008 has been very good to the ’hood. With the recent run of
Bringing ‘Transcendentalism’ Home
It would be hard for a student at Harvard—or any resident of Cambridge, for that matter—to dislike a book in