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Israel’s Hippest Voice Speaks Out
By AMIT R. PALEY CRIMSON STAFF WRITEr “When I started writing I thought I was really, really fucked up,” Etgar
Layers of Love
For American readers, German author Bernhard Schlink has a huge task at hand with his new collection, Flights of Love:
"Homespun" Success
When it comes to early American history, very rarely does it get better than Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. A short list
Margaret Atwood's Wilderness Tips
This is your hand, these are my hands, this is the world, which is round but not flat and has
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When President Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, returned to Mother Harvard to accept an honorary doctorate in 1902, he bellowed
'Theodore Rex' Speaks Loudly
When President Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, returned to Mother Harvard to accept an honorary doctorate in 1902, he bellowed
A Nightmarish Take on America
Just how far will our cultural obsession with images and their consumption take us? Jennifer Egan’s Look At Me is
You Say You Want a Revolution
The cover of Christopher Hitchens’s latest book finds the author pictured, dapper in a rumpled olive trench coat and five
Nobel Prize Winner's Newest: 'Half A Life'
In Paul Theroux’s memoir of his friendship with V.S. Naipaul, Naipaul hisses a typically vain slur at the Nobel Prize
Thesis, Shmesis: Write a Book Instead
Theses are by definition creative. Every Harvard student who writes a thesis must make an original argument. So what does
'Cocktails' For Two: Interview With D.A. Powell
D.A. Powell began teaching poetry-writing classes at Harvard this year as the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer of Poetry. He has received awards
What Is Science, Anyway?
A warning to all physics, math and chemistry concentrators who spend their days sweating over textbooks in Cabot Science Library—all
The New American Way: Only Food And Guns
By GRAEME C.A. WOOD CRIMSON STAFF WRITER It would be too easy to write off Canada as just another country
Reading Up on September 11th
When we were small, our parents told us that instant gratification didn’t exist. Simply wishing for something doesn’t mean you’ll
