Word: authors
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...They will be allowed to visit the author of their economics textbook, Professor Mankiw, during his office hours,” Predescu said. “They’re very excited...
Power, a Pulitzer-Prize winning author who has advised Barack Obama on foreign policy, agreed with Mccammon, saying that “the combination of brains and idealism that appears to pass through this University is a pretty potent combination...
...With a stronger screenplay from writer Don Kellar, “Blindness” could have been a tour-de-force about society’s breakdown during dangerous epidemics. With such a respected cast and director, and a screenplay adapted from a novel by a widely acclaimed author, the movie’s failure is even more surprising. Ultimately, “Blindness” becomes a laughable attempt at translating greatness on the page to greatness on the screen. —Staff writer Andres A. Arguello can be reached at arguello@fas.harvard.edu...
...tycoon before the Opium War—what if every Chinese added just one inch of fabric to their clothing?—has found new meaning as a generation of Chinese artists now ask What if every European collector bought just one of my paintings? As Zhu Qi, author of the essay Art Capitalism in China writes, showings of Chinese art have become an “assessment index of artist’s position in art scenes and of his market price,” as opposed to a referendum on their talent. This is a Bull Market...
...voices of alive-yet-dead Indian survivors, a song drilled into the head of the narrator, who is eventually overcome by these ghosts of the past. Moya’s descriptive language captures the narrator’s progressive deterioration, so that by the end of the book, the author makes us wonder if we haven’t lost a bit of ourselves in this violent, perversely comedic account. We are glad to escape with only the scars of those final, apocalyptic words: “Everybody’s fucked. Be grateful you left...