Victoria Zhuang
"The Angels' Share" A Visual Delight
As you can expect in any Loach film, there is no shortage of vividly rendered scenery. The cinematography is a real treat for the eyes, a visual whiskey tasting of colors, textures, and terrains. And despite a lazy plot, "The Angels' Share" still manages to be a heartening and enjoyable story.
Kirill Medvedev: Yes, It's Good
Kirill Medvedev has brilliantly anticipated, but not truly managed to avoid the traps of literature and politics that he so perceptively outlines in his essays. His present celebrity as the leading poet of his country is yet a fragile one, by very fact of its inimitable novelty.
Artist Spotlight: Andy J. Boyd '14
I kept getting these roles and acting in them and thinking, ‘I can do better than this.’
"The Teleportation Accident"
The intelligence of “The Teleportation Accident,” for all its glad existential moments of felicitous insight, still seems more a species of precocity than of wisdom.
Poetry Reading at Houghton to Focus on Ecology
The nearly 600-page collection features formally innovative work in the tradition of the pastoral, an ancient form of lyric poetry celebrating shepherds and rural life. At the same time, these poems address ideas from an ecology perspective.
"See Now Then"
The overly fragmentary nature of "See Now Then" and flattened characters prevent it from being better than a song or ditty, let alone the symphony it has aspired to be.
‘The Servant of Two Masters’ Serves up Laughs
“The Servant” is wonderfully acted, and succeeds in its better moments through its focus on traditional comic tropes.
Focusing On Instagram
Seeing one’s creative work on display in a gallery is typically a privilege reserved for professional artists. But for two ...
Quad Arts Festival Seeks to Make Arts Accessible
Sarah A. Moon '15 and Sammy G. Young '15 have big plans for drawing students into the arts—one of which ...
Preview: Piano Society Fall Recital
The Harvard College Piano Society's upcoming fall recital represents the work of an organization revitalized.
'Dear Life' Overly Directed Yet Bravely Realistic
“Dear Life” catalogues life’s bizarre, unanticipated results and sets them brimming with a poignant human appeal
Soaring Arias Propel 'The Mikado'
This operetta by the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players is largely successful due not only to its talented singers but also the stunning scenery, which work together to bring out the work’s softly romantic charm.
HMS Panel Considers "Death with Dignity" Ballot Question
Lachlan Forrow, the director of ethics and palliative care programs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, posed a philosophical question to his audience on prescribing medication to end life: “Who has the right to tell anybody how to die?”
How We Chose to End the World
"How We Chose to End the World" comes to Agassiz Theater next week
