Zoe K. Hitzig
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Letter to the Editor: Sexual Politics at Harvard
I am writing in response to Sandra Korn’s column published on Wednesday, September 25th titled “Sexual Politics.”
"Middle C" is a Tonic of Imagination
Gass’s sentences in "Middle C" are notes with their own frequencies, counterpoints, tonics and modulations in what may be the philosopher-writer’s last aria.
Retelling Harvard
In “Penelope,” the absurdity of college experience can be conveyed only through parody.
Students Create New DJ Club
A new electronic music club has found a home in a room high atop Eliot House that holds a piano on which famed composer Leonard Bernstein ’39 once practiced.
Chabon’s Fiction Finds Homelands in Exile
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon spoke at Northeastern about blending his Jewish heritage with genre fiction.
Leyner Grabs Life by the ‘Nutsack’ in New Novel
In “The Sugar Frosted Nutsack,” Mark Leyner crafts a hilarious combination of divine creation and mundane reality.
Penney Explores Marginalized Culture in ‘The Invisible Ones’
In Scottish writer Stef Penney’s latest novel “The Invisible Ones,” Leon Wood, a Gypsy, wants to investigate his daughter Rose’s disappearance but will only place his trust in a fellow Gypsy. Enter Ray Lovell, a half-Romani private investigator who assimilated years ago into “gorjio,” or non-Gypsy, society. He soon sets off to figure out exactly how and why Rose disappeared.
Portrait of an Artist: Alvin Curran
Experimental composer Alvin Curran, the Music Department's Louis C. Elson Lecture, discusses a 50-year career in avant-garde music.
Die Antwoord's Profane Performance Art
After Die Antwoord’s particularly raucous and hysterical set Friday night, many concertgoers left relishing the group’s rebellious spirit and refusal to conform with the music industry and stale social convention.