Rachel A. Burns
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OFA Medalist Meiselas Focuses in on Conflict
Photographer Susan Meiselas has directed her lens toward everything from carnival strippers to a revolution in Nicaragua. In a lifelong ...
Katherine M. Tygielski '11
Housing day is an important moment for all Harvard freshmen, as they find out whether they will spend their next ...
Australian Laureate Murray Meditates on Nature and Dialect
In his 1999 poem “The Instruments,” Australian poet Les Murray wrote, “Poetry is read by lovers of poetry / and ...
Jensen Expertly Navigates Life in a Danish Port Town
At the center of this wide-ranging sea drama is the town of Marstal, and the stories of its native sailors, widows, and children.
Top Five Fictional Rabbits
I had a real pet rabbit as a child, but it chewed through all the wires.
Ozick Mimics James in ‘Foreign Bodies’
Setting it in postwar Paris in 1952, Ozick describes her retelling in relationship to James’s work as “a photographic negative, in which the plot is the same but the meaning is reversed.”
Seamus Heaney Returns to Old Haunts in ‘Human Chain’
“Human Chain,” the newest collection from Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, is filled with the sounds of different languages.
Poet Muldoon Mesmerizes with ‘Maggot’
Between his constant wordplay and his easy use of rhyme, Muldoon creates a series of poems that are full of exuberance even as they approach the grisliest of topics.
POSTCARD: The Poppies of Picardy
The poppies blossom annually as reminders of the blood lost in these very same fields.
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