Spencer B.L. Lenfield
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The Word Become Flesh: The Feel of a Good Book
Reading is a deeply corporeal experience, as much as eating or seeing or having a cold.
Separation and Sympathy in Shared Reading
I first noticed a split between my mom’s taste in literature and my own at the beginning of ninth grade. ...
Growing Libraries--And Cutting Them Back Down
Taking a few books from home to college is like taking a cutting of one tree to start another.
Reading Such as Charmeth Sleep
The ideal reading environment resembles nothing so much as going to bed.
Hidden in Plain Sight
Many of Harvard’s other libraries unjustly suffer from lack of attention.
BLO Injects Rock Attitude into 'Ariadne'
Welsh National Opera’s (WNO) production of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s “Ariadne auf Naxos” ran at the Boston Lyric ...
LHO Reenvisions 'Tosca' in Fascist Rome
The Lowell House Opera (LHO) production of “Tosca,” stage directed by Michael A. Yashinsky ’11, with music direction by Channing ...
BSO Plays Third and Fourth, Comes Out First
The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) performed Beethoven’s Third (“Eroica”) and Fourth Symphonies under James Levine on February 19 with an ...
'Albert Herring' Nails Humor
Benjamin Britten’s 1947 comic opera “Albert Herring” revels in the notion of being bad on purpose. The Dunster House Opera’s ...