Word: authorly
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Paul Davies is a professor of natural history at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and the author of more than 20 books, including The Mind of God (Simon & Schuster; 1992) and, most recently, Are We Alone? (Basic Books...
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and author Thomas Friedman will present a lecture on the life of a journalist on Tuesday...
...committee will be represented at the meeting by its chair, Tweed Roosevelt '64; its secretary, H. A. Crosby Forbes '50; architectural historian Douglas Shand-Tucci '72, author of Built in Boston; two other committee members and an undergraduate...
...Moor's Last Sigh, Rushdie's first novel since the cataclysmic Satanic Verses, has been much anticpated as the exiled author's rebuttal of tyranny. But we must be careful to separate Rushdie's predicament (an accident, really, a grotesque ordering of political events) from Rushdie's product. That Rushdie is still alive seven years after the fatwah and that he is still able to write such fabulous tales is his response. The novel can and perhaps must be read as independent of the political issues...
...impossible to read Rushdie without reading into Rushdie, that is, without reading his work as a veiled response to the Ayatollah's threat. Certainly, The Moor's Last Sigh deals with flight and exile, but these themes have surfaced in the author's pre-fatwah work. Rushdie has always been something of an exile; as a British-educated Indian Muslim he must make his home by force of will...