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...significant figure in his childhood. Goldstein is a complex character, so much so that he might merit a work all his own, but he really has no place taking up so much room in what is ostensibly Lelyveld’s story. He may loom large in the author??s memories, but his presence in this book feels too tangential, if independently fascinating...
...order “to round out…an early chapter of [his] own life,” creates a side-loop off the main spiral of his memory. Instead of being allowed to continue on our journey through the foldings of the author??s psyche, we are instead directed to the twin labyrinths of letters and libraries, caught up in a journalistic inquiry...
...Harvard students. If that is the case, I apologize.) Is it because Harvard students are too career-oriented and business-minded, performing a cost/benefit analysis before deciding to hook up? Are meaningless, casual encounters so common because we’ve internalized a post-modern sexual ethos where the author??s intentions are irrelevant, leaving us with nothing...
Some people say that an artist can’t create his own meaning, that he can only combine pre-existing voices so that they blend and clash in a new way. This so-called “death of the author?? is singularly dramatized in The Books’ third album, Lost and Safe, in which the North Adams, Mass. duo takes their signature cut-and-paste sound collage to a new level...
Green’s book—tentatively titled “What I Learned in College: A Year with the Ivy League”—will present a comical and witty narrative of the author??s experiences at each school, according to a press release from Green...