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...which she addressed most ambitiously, and successfully, in The Golden Notebook, her 12th novel, published in 1962. A formal tour de force, The Golden Notebook is the story of a divorced writer named Anna Wulf told through her four notebooks, each of which is concerned with recording a different aspect of herself. Brilliant, autobiographical and feverishly experimental, it's a bravura portrait of a shattered self, richly adorned with ruthless commentary on psychoanalysis, Communism, England and Africa, and modern fiction. "This novel," Lessing has said of The Golden Notebook, "is an attempt to break a form; to break certain forms...
...comical and sad.” Particularly sad—and particularly difficult for Pollitt to write—was an essay on her mother and her father. For Pollitt, forcing people to realize that she has a sometimes-difficult inner life has proved to be the most interesting aspect of this book’s publication. Despite her status as a well-known feminist, Pollitt refrained from conveying a message about the current state of feminism through the book. “Learning to Drive,” she says, is about sharing her life experience openly...
...Warcraft players enter the continents of “The Eastern Kingdoms” or “Kalimdor” just as easily as they might enter the Radcliffe Quad. And while this lifestyle strikes some people as strangely antisocial, it is precisely the social aspects of the game that keep players coming back hour after hour. It’s their virtual party, and they’ll fly dragons if they want to. THE WORLD OF WARCRACK“It’s easy to feel a little overwhelmed by peering into it from the outside...
...divisional dean then arranges for several departmental “witnesses” familiar with the nominee’s work to come before the committee individually. Although the committee questions the witnesses and assesses the value of the nominee’s field, a peculiar aspect of this ad hoc committee is that no votes are taken throughout the process. The committee is essentially just an advisory group to the President, who alone makes the final decision...
...follows that tenure, which entails a lifetime appointment, is a vote of confidence Harvard does not make lightly. Harvard’s highest official is alone endowed with the power to bestow a full professorship, the sole tenured position at Harvard. “The most important aspect of President Faust’s job,” says Casey, “Is that she chooses the future faculty of Harvard...