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...been staring at for the past three weeks?It’s Harvard’s Northwest Science Building, and if it took you a while to place it—or you caught yourself flipping to the inner blurb entitled “A Note on the Cover??—it’s probably because the building is brand new, just out of its Tyvek wrap and with a few stray hard hats lying around to prove it. Designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), San Francisco, it’s doors opened to students...
...rather impressionist.The confusion! What timeperiod will this work actually take placein? Maybe that’s the question the philosophermust answer.The New Granta Book of the AmericanShort Story, by Richard FordIf the book has “American” in thetitle, it must have Old Glory on the cover??that’s a given. But why stick with theclichéd image of an actual flag flying inthe wind if one can look at a peeling renditionpainted onto a pile of stacked logs?Forget the fact that it’s technically illegalto put the national...
...conspiracy to mix education and children’s gifts. This book operates under the theory that if it’s shiny enough, I’ll buy it. Which, to be honest, is a pretty good assumption. Between the silver front and the back cover??s picture of three kids and a pig running through space, I’m ready to get a copy for every single one of my 15 cousins...
...deficiencies or bad breath. On the plus side, a book about fake ambitions, repressed fantasies and the inability to function in the real world probably will sell great over at MIT. The Cult of iPod by Leander Kahney I felt embarrassed holding this book at the COOP, because the cover??a bird’s eye view of someone with an old-fashioned iPod click wheel shaved into his head—was already obsolete. Or maybe this was done on purpose, to show what a rebel the cover model is. Yeah, that’s gotta...
...three panelists revealed a celebrity-crazed underbelly to their work. They identified race, sex, and celebrity as pivotal factors in making “the crimes of the century” that they cover??from the Anna Nicole Smith affair to the Duke rape scandal...