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Before a recent visit to my dear old mum, I purchased The Kindly Ones, by Jonathan Littell, a 992-page Nazi-palooza that, given the nearly 3-lb. weight of the new English translation, makes for an ideal Kindle selection. But when I got ready to buy it on Amazon, I blanched at the $16.19 price. Every Kindle text I've purchased since Amazon started selling the device in November 2007 has been $9.99. Indeed, that was one of the Kindle's main draws: you could buy books wirelessly, on demand and at a fraction of the cost of their...
...published in the Advocate, the College’s quarterly literary magazine. Over two dozen students and faculty members crowded into the Advocate’s sanctum for the award’s ceremony where both Begley, the author of “About Schmidt,” and English professor Louis Menand, the judge of the Begley prize, praised the merits of Hale’s short story. “This is an absolutely brilliant piece of writing, and we’ll be hearing a lot from her in the future,” said Begley...
Alexandra A. Petri ’10 is an English and classics concentrator in Eliot House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays...
...senior lecturer on folklore and mythology—added that faculty can likely use the name makeover as an opportunity to develop new courses. The proposal—presented at yesterday’s meeting by FAS humanities dean Diana Sorensen and African and African American studies and English professor Werner Sollors—will undergo further discussion with members of the committee on ethnic studies before returning to the Faculty Council for review. —Staff writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...
...English Professor Louis Menand recalled feeling thrilled when the Harvard Faculty finally approved the new curriculum at the last Faculty meeting of the 2006-2007 academic year. Menand, who helped author the Report of the Task Force on General Education, said that almost the entire room—168 professors, to be exact—raised their hands as the Secretary of the Faculty counted the votes. At that meeting, the Faculty moved to eliminate the nearly 30-year-old Core program and implement the new Gen Ed curriculum over a period of two years...