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Should your books be shelved in the fiction or nonfiction section of the bookstore? Reilly Capps TELLURIDE, COLO...
...such concrete understanding, but Harvard’s Social Studies program has gone a long way toward promoting international concerns. Those in the humanities, however, may despair—although they may know everything there is to know about postwar Georgia bluegrass music or food imagery in Czechoslovakian spy fiction, their knowledge of the delicate interplay between cultural forces independent of nations may remain blighted. It is time to rethink how the humanities approach learning, and to usher in a new ethic of “transnationalism.”Developments like the Internet already erode the traditional vision...
...think that given the track record for the author, people should be very careful about what they read into the book. This guy has a history of passing fiction off as non-fiction,” he said, referring to controversy that surrounded “Bringing Down the House...
...fiction writer will provide a perspective very different from someone like Bill Gates, said Carole Horne, general manager and a buyer at The Harvard Book Store. Such a perspective can be provocative and profound for those embarking on the next phase of their lives, Horne said...
...Kozol translated his early teaching experiences into “Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools,” his first book of non-fiction. Its selection for the National Book Award in 1968 “unfortunately propelled me into a public role, which I had never wanted,” he said...