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...course, House of Meetings takes place in a pre-September 11th world. Is it an artifact from a bygone era? Or is there stuff in there that's still relevant to the present...
...some of the world's worst reviews only makes him more interesting. A relentlessly intelligent, funny, and kind writer, he's endlessly interested in stupid, humorless, cruel people, and in his new book House of Meetings (Knopf; 256 pages) he turns for a fresh supply of them to Stalin-era Russia. Ranging back and forth from frozen Arctic prison camps to the unseemly capitalist free-for-all of the post-Soviet era, House of Meetings is two love stories - one of romantic love, and one of the love between brothers - that are woven together, then crushed and deformed...
...curious - how did it work? Here you've just finished up Koba the Dread [a non-fiction work about the horrors of the Stalin era], and - what? You weren't done with Russia...
...myself a political education. In lieu of literary criticism - I find I haven't done much of that at all since Sept. 11th. But I've written almost a sort of book-length amount of journalism, and a couple of stories about September 11th and all that implies, that era beginning then. And the novel I'm working on now has an Islamic theme...
...post-Cusworth era got off to an inauspicious beginning for the Harvard men’s basketball team on Friday night. Playing in its first game without graduated 7’0 senior center Brian Cusworth, who was the team leader in points, rebounds, and blocks, the Crimson (9-10, 2-3) was blitzed by Columbia. The Lions (11-8, 2-3) entered Lavietes Pavilion hungry for a win after losing three of their first four league games, and exited with a 90-70 blowout victory. “We knew they’d come in here tonight with...