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While five-year-olds and fantasy fanatics gear up for the new film adaptation of “The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe,” Alan Jacobs struggles to reveal the man behind the fairy tale in “The Narnian.” The book??part biography of C.S. Lewis and part literary critique of his works—provides greater insight into Lewis’ continuing influence on thinkers like Jacobs than it does into Lewis himself. “The Narnian” portrays Lewis as a man defined...
...Untangling the Ivy League: 2006” markets itself as an insider’s guide to the Ivy League written by the students and alumni. The book??s back cover confides: “We figured they would know more from experience, plus they’re probably a whole lot smarter.” As if self-promotion and hubris were in too short a supply around our campuses, the book informs us that Ivy Leaguers are more intelligent than college experts, major publishing houses, and the general public. If the labyrinth of college admissions truly...
...Gulf War and the Marine Corps. Eventually, I just kept bumping up against my autobiography. THC: What are the limitations of literature and film in representing the war genre? AS: Well, the bombs are never going to go off in your hand while you’re reading the book??[but] I don’t think there are limitations if the book is well written and the film is well made. All experience, when put into literature and film is moved through memory, and then through art. THC: What about the cultural resonance...
...from libraries, its sales only grew. Similar counterattacks followed a review by John Updike ‘54 of Hollinghurst’s “The Spell” (1999), in which (according to Hollinghurst) Updike implied “some nonsense” linking the book??s creative failure to gay men’s procreative failure.Hollinghurst, however, seems refreshingly unconcerned about success or failure. “People attach far too much importance to prizes,” he shrugged when asked about winning the Booker for “The Line of Beauty...
...Campus Homosexuals.” But just as Wright’s characters don drag, his book takes on a masquerade of sorts. At times, it is fiction dressed as fact.To be sure, Wright ensconced himself in the bowels of Pusey Library for many months while researching the book??in which he paints a portrait of a Harvard campus gripped by homophobic hysteria. In 1920, a secret tribunal under the aegis of then-University President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, expelled eight students and one philosophy Ph.D. candidate—and expunged one purportedly gay alum?...