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...talks. “Climate change is happening on a way faster and a much larger scale than we thought it would. It is truly scary.”The urgency of the issue inspired McKibben, a former president of The Harvard Crimson, to put aside his 20-year career as a prolific journalist and author. Writing, he said, is “too slow” to effect change, while talks and large-scale events have greater potential to both “spark” citizens to participate and pressure politicians to act.In the spring, McKibben spearheaded...
...poignant experience to Western audiences. But Achebe’s visit to Harvard was not only a celebration of his first novel, but also a celebration of his legacy. Since penning “Things Fall Apart” at 28, the writer has had a prolific career as a public intellectual, outspoken activist, professor, and postcolonial patriarch. He has written multiple essays, a book of poetry, and several other celebrated books, including “Arrow of God” and “No Longer At Ease.” The themes that Achebe tackles...
...myself.”Denis is currently in production for her new film, “White Material,” shot in Cameroon and starring legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert. Despite the prestige that Huppert’s name lends to the project, Denis refuses to see her career as a progression. “I never imagined there would be a progression. I imagined there would be a regression. Progression—this is not an idea that is active in me,” she said. But in her characteristic reconstructive fashion, Denis modifies her statement...
...interested in searching for new means of delivering popular music into the home, however, is reductive to say the least.Last month, the Harvard Film Archive presented a series of films from Conner that included “Cosmic Ray” in its program. Conner, who began his career as a figure in Beat circles in San Francisco in the mid-1950s, was active until his death earlier this year and remains an enigmatic icon in 20th century American art. Though he worked extensively in drawing, painting, and as a collage artist throughout his long and prolific career, Conner first...
...have seemed like the perfect opportunity to enliven his book with personal anecdotes, Zollner realizes through this experience that to try to contain the artist’s life in a commercial biography would only trivialize this man’s actual experiences. Kaminski’s early career is the stuff that iconic stories are made of. In fact, as Kehlmann traces the development of his protagonist, Kaminski lives up to the stereotype of the idiosyncratic artistic genius, whose success does not hinge on talent alone, but is shrouded in a certain inexplicable mystique. Initially, the author humanizes Kaminski...