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Twenty-eight years after publishing his wildly successful, Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Gödel, Escher, Bach,” Douglas Hofstadter has produced a piece that is beyond brilliant. The book sits on shelves with its cover proclaiming, “I Am a Strange Loop.” And, as we would expect, Hofstadter’s new masterpiece is indeed a strange loop, but one that deserves close attention.“I Am a Strange Loop” sets out to probe the essence of the soul—in a philosophical, cognitive...
...your tan when you realize you have nothing to read. You know you want something appropriately spring-y, but it can’t be too air-headed, because others on the beach will see you reading and judge you—and the book—by its cover. ON CHESIL BEACH: A NOVEL by Ian McEwan It’s beachy, but serious-style beachy. Clearly this is no frivolous tale of surf and sun: there’s some foreboding darkness in the top right corner and a solitary girl staring out at the deep blue. That?...
CORRECTION: The April 27 news article "Equal Privileges For Notorious Alums" incorrectly implied that Harvard's non-discrimination policy does not cover white males. In fact, the policy is not limited to cover a specific group of individuals; it more broadly protects against discrimination based on race, gender, and other factors...
...tragedy is that that hope will never be realized; she’s now a well fed, moronic relic. What makes her new album of cover songs, “Twelve,” so damned upsetting is just how ignorant she’s become...
...cover is a whopping six-and-a-half minutes long, and includes an unintelligible interlude of her poetry: “Goat-skin drums advancing with hands outstretched, and we keep filling them with nitrous, asbestos, baby-bombs blasting blue,” she blabbers. Gee, Patti, we’re really getting into that poetry of yours. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is also the most recent song she covers here, and it’s indicative of her antiquated sensibilities—the kind of song that Reader’s Digest subscribers might...