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Before the accident, the nameless hero of Andrew Davidson's The Gargoyle (Doubleday; 468 pages) was a freakishly handsome, drug-addicted porn star who was also, deep breath, an orphan and a misunderstood genius who secretly wrote poetry. This is what Brits call overegging the pudding. But in the burn ward, he becomes almost plausible. He banters bitterly with his doctors and plans an elaborate suicide. Davidson could have just stopped here and called it The American Patient...
...fault Davidson's energy. It doesn't even bother me, much, that his feel for medieval history is patchy. (Though as a former Dungeons & Dragons aficionado, I feel bound to point out that crossbows do not fire arrows; they fire bolts or quarrels.) What bothers me is that The Gargoyle is a hymn to the power of love to triumph over time. Love triumphs over time only in romance novels. In literature, as in life, it goes the other way around. As the poet Delmore Schwartz put it, Time is the fire in which we burn...
...Spencer’s immersion in higher education began early—her father served as president of Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Va. from 1957 to 1968 and Davidson College in North Carolina from...
...When you finished graduate school they are supposed to kick you out,” Khazei said. But Davidson “stretched the rules” and created a new position—public service tutor—which allowed Khazei to keep his free room and board. “It was the first donation to City Year,” Khazei said...
...annual class of 1,400 youths between the ages of 17 and 24, it came from humble beginnings. When the program launched, Brown was still in his third year at Harvard Law School. Khazei, who had graduated the year before, relied on support from then-Currier House Masters Holly Davidson and Gregory Nagy to get the program started...