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...acclaim and acceptance in the literary world Lahiri has garnered, her presence seems to belie it. After being introduced by Wordsworth Books?? William Corbett, Lahiri walked onstage with the quiet poise that is so common in her writing. Before reading an excerpt from Namesake, she commented on her own experience in Cambridge so many years...
...previous books??including House and The Soul of a New Machine—have won him the highest accolades, including a Pulitzer Prize for Soul. But from the project’s inception, Kidder says, he realized that Mountains Beyond Mountains would differ from his acclaimed portraits of urban schoolteachers, small-town police officers and house-builders...
...brief. When it wasn’t Harvard officials brightening my day in Pine, I discovered a slew of messages from people as far away as Germany—and who doesn’t like a foreign pen pal? Suddenly, people with my name somehow in their address books??as well as the people in their address books??were contacting me for no particular reason other than to talk about “RE: Subj: Your Details.” At last, someone really cared! SoBig had enlarged my social circle, if only fleetingly, like...
Strong ethical judgement—which cannot be garnered only from books??will be essential for the rising generation to ensure that technological developments are used for beneficial, rather than harmful, principles, he told the young scholars...
...Allen entered Columbia’s Ph.D. program to study a slew of fields—from ethics to the philosophy of language—and found himself teaching again. This time he became a preceptor for Columbia’s famous “Great Books?? course, where he taught eager undergraduates about philosophers like Aristotle, Locke and Hegel...