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Admirers gathered last night at the Brattle Theatre to honor the life and work of the late author and journalist David L. Halberstam...
Consisting of comments on the events covered in the book and on the life of the author himself, the film featured interviews with Halberstam’s friends, including Bob Woodward, Neil Sheehan ’58, and Joan Didion. Those interviewed reflected on Halberstam’s integrity, presence, and journalistic tenacity...
...sense it goes back to Aristotle," says the paper's senior author, Armin Falk, an economist. "The fact that we are social beings is a well-known fact." But the idea that rewards are context-dependent challenges a key assumption behind most traditional of economic theories: the premise that humans are essentially self-interested, that they care about their own work, income, achievements, and purchases, and that whatever other people do is, if not irrelevant, at least not going to have a consistent or predictable effect on decision-making...
Stephen King likes to start the conversation and so the horror author began asking questions before TIME's Gilbert Cruz could even take a seat to interview him in New York City...
...author of four other novels, Yu has earned his reputation as a literary brute, whose characters constantly suffer at the claws of icy fate. He openly admires Faulkner's novels, and the grotesque absurdities in Yu's fiction wouldn't feel out of place in Faulkner's degenerate American South: a teen tries to rape a woman in her 70s to see what it's like, a man tries to pawn his dead father's frozen body, a drunkard drowns in a cesspit...