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...works came out, Ariel, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems. John Kennedy Toole's Southern gothic tragicomedy A Confederacy of Dunces was unpublished and gathering dust until Toole's mother put it in the hands of Walker Percy years after her son's suicide. The 2008 publication in English of Stieg Larsson's critically acclaimed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo came four years after he passed on. And let's not even talk about Roberto Bolano, whose 2666 was all the rage late last year - his 2003 death prominently mentioned in every piece and review...
...while it's unfair to compare Bolano to Vladimir Nabokov - the author of Lolita, one of the English language's greatest novels - it is fair to say that a similar response will greet the publication of Nabokov's The Original of Laura, should it come out this November as expected. The problem is that Nabokov never wanted the book to be released in the first place; in his will, he'd instructed his son and executor Dmitri to destroy the manuscript. Dmitiri does not seem to be inclined to obey, setting off a debate over which is more important...
During her tenure, the soft-spoken leader has seen her purview expand to include a large-scale renovation of Memorial Hall and the freshman dorms in addition to founding Harvard’s Bridge to Learning and Literacy Program, which helps University employees improve their English language skills...
Sissel then started thinking of adopting the child. "At first," she says, "I just wanted Bernard to come to L.A. for a visit. Once in L.A., he expressed a desire to stay and go to school. Keep in mind, Bernard could not read, write, count or speak English beyond basic words. I had a lot of Indian friends who got involved. I registered him in an elementary school in Santa Monica." Eventually he was given a student visa to study in the U.S. Now Bernard Chambliss Sissel, he is 30 and a married father working as a camera assistant...
...which runs through March 14 with a rotating cast—represents months of preparation by a small army of volunteers including Harvard undergraduates, graduate students, numerous musicians, and singers both amateur and professional, as well as a large production team. The opera was sung in Italian with English supertitles above the stage. First performed in Milan in 1887, “Otello” was Verdi’s penultimate opera and is widely considered his greatest tragedy. The work represented the great composer’s return from his first retirement and was an immediate success...