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Luis Rafael-Sanchez, a prominent Puerto Rican essayist and novelist, has been invited by the Department of Romance Languages and Literature, and Xiao-huang Yin, a specialist in Chinese-American history, will teach in the History Department...
...journalist and essayist for the PBS MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour, Rodriguez knows that Americans grasp their history lightly if at all. In a multiethnic society, it's a cultural disorder that has had its advantages. Historical amnesia has been useful to the 12-step process of national amalgamation. Forget just a bit who you were, and it was easier to become someone else -- an American...
...wrote and directed his first play in the ninth grade, and since then he has seldom strayed from the footlights: as a 26-year-old lawyer arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court; as a popular lecturer in political economy at Harvard; as a best-selling and prolific author and essayist, television commentator and corporate consultant. Built like a jockey (4 ft. 10 in. and wiry) and bursting with humor and energy, Reich could always attract and hold an audience, even when playing honky-tonk piano for friends on weekends. And for the past 24 years, he has won some...
...historical novel based on an 18th century love affair between Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson seems an unlikely subject for Susan Sontag. But the essayist, cultural critics and author of the famous "Notes on Camp" and the 1969 book Styles of Radical Will has recently written a historical novel of ideas...
...other paintings in his career show the same fine play between aesthetic intent and illusionism. Usually it's the eye-fooling that wins. The comment of a great American Modernist, Marsden Hartley, is cited by one essayist: "In Harnett there is nothing to bother about, nothing to confuse, nothing to $ interpret . . . there is the myopic persistence to render every single thing singly." The catalog protests this, pointing to the stories that underlie the conglomerations of things in his still lifes, which do indeed provide something to interpret. But was this what Hartley meant? In fact, no. He saw what...