Books
Sontag's Critical Blandness
Is Susan Sontag the only critic left who still cares about high culture? It’s been almost 40 years since “Against
Halberstam on War and Peace
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the Generals is a penetrating look at America’s military and foreign
An Interview With David Halberstam '55
David Halberstam ’55, a former Crimson managing editor, covered the early civil rights movement, the Congo and Vietnam in a
New Layers of the Onion Unpeeled
Dispatches from the Tenth Circle—the newest Onion compilation—delivers all of the uncannily mundane humor which has made the newspaper wildly
A New Harvard History
It is not self-evident that Morton and Phyllis Kellers Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of Americas University will have a
Making the Odd From the Ordinary
Charles Simic was born in Belgrade in 1938, and has been publishing poetry in the US since 1961. In 1990
Reading Out Loud
Fall is finally upon us, and so is the new literary season, which means one thing: the authors are on
Creating the Self: Personal Nonfiction
“How does the writer of personal narrative pull from his or her own boring, agitated self the truth speaker who
It's A Dog-Eat-Dog World
Arthur Bradford, a young and hip writer with a growing, young and hip following, has turned the likes of Zadie
Readings in the Square: Fall Highlights
While publishers ultimately are in charge of tours, authors do have some say as to where they’d like to go.
April Showers Bring MFA Flowers
There are two ways to approach the annual “Art in Bloom” festival at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). For
Derrida's Cinders
Cinders By Jacques Derrida University of Nebraska Press $25.00 T here is one really good joke in Jacques Derrida's Cinders.
