Maryanthe E. Malliaris
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Antiquity
It is said that Boston is the Athens of America. Academic groves aside, this always seemed to me a spurious
Empires of the Blind
Once, it seemed, the focus of media was education—imparting facts, perhaps with a bit of ideology thrown in. These days,
The Tax Romana
It is difficult to point to something which unites the industrialized world more than the dread of things coming due.
Bricolage
As a thesis writer with a deadline immediately after spring break (most likely, as you read this, I am dashing
I.D.-ology
Now that I am respectably of age, I carry my license and its angstful photograph proudly. I no longer look
Unreal City
Widener under construction is a fantastic world. Predictably monumental in summer, the building takes on an imperial quality against the
Groves of Academe
Judging from the flash bulbs continually snapping around the Yard, one might guess that the most distinctive features of the
Fragment 13
In my room atop Lowell House, studying for exams, I take time off to reflect on the generalities and fragments
Decadence
This weekend, I have had the sudden fortune of housesitting for the father of a friend of mine, who lives
Sense of Place
A line from Akhmatova: The hour of remembrance has drawn close again. It does not seem, during the fall of