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I fear that what we’re really discovering is that all our least charitable hunches and peeves about Sontag may have been right from the start—she is pretentious, not to say stupid, and her prose is dull, not to say wholly unadmirable. Sontag simply isn?...
Ron Borges, MSNBC
The position is one of the most prestigious lectureships in the nation. Past recipients have included Leonard Bernstein '39, e.e. cummings '15, T.S. Eliot '10, Robert Frost, Harold Bloom, Lionel Trilling, Jorge Luis Borges and Aaron Copeland. The most recent Norton Professor was musicologist Joseph W. Kerman, who lectured in...
Milton Nascimento came out for his set next. He cuts a striking figure onstage - dreads down to his shoulders, a dark headband holding them in place, clad in a simple white tunic and flowing white pants. His music is a stew of many ingredients - Brazilian spices, West African meat, European...
Avoiding Argentine schools that Fuentes said "fed an ideology of fascism and anti-Semitism," he took a year off and wandered the streets of Buenos Aires, where he discovered tango and the great Spanish writer Jorge Luis Borges.