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Very early on the morning of June 30, 1860, a murder took place at an English country house called Road Hill. The owner's son Saville Kent, 3, was gently, silently lifted from his bed. His assailant suffocated him, stabbed him in the chest, cut his throat and finally dropped him head-down through a hole in the servants' outhouse. His body was found later that day. In the months that followed, the Road Hill House murder became a national obsession. It seemed to reveal some sick secret truth lurking in the hushed, upholstered heart of the Victorian household; Wilkie...
Moses was not reluctant to take a role in the intellectual life of the College. A graduate of Princeton, the future dean earned a doctoral degree in English from Cornell in 1968, and would garner teaching experience at Princeton, Cornell, and the University of Virginia before coming to Harvard, where he lectured in English in the midst of his tenure as dean of freshmen. The love of language did not leave...
...born, threatened to kill the family of Yalini’s father. Thus, Yalini’s relationship with tradition is a complex one, simultaneously embracing and menacing.The novel’s sparse sentences and luscious imagery are reminiscent of Jamaica Kincaid, who was Ganeshananthan’s English thesis advisor at Harvard. Ganeshananthan admits in her acknowledgments that Kinkaid’s “particular brand of meticulous attention continues to be the standard for which I strive,” and there are multiple moments when Ganeshananthan soars to the same heights of literary...
...does one describe Björk’s music video for her single “Wanderlust” in words that are commonly used in the English language? Ridiculous, pretentious, and just plain weird come to mind, though none of those actually describe the plot of this travesty. Allow me to do my best. The video, presented in stereoscopic 3D, opens with a creature—best described as the bastard child of a yak and a mastodon—lapping from a stream. There is, in fact, a herd of these creatures, and Bj?...
...like you, couldn’t be more in favor of shortening the name of the Department of English and American Literature and Language. Fitting those words on my curriculum vitae or using them to introduce myself to people from other schools is a royal pain. They come across as pretentious and snobby...