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Monuments aren't always made of stone. You might say that there's a World War II memorial embedded all through American culture. It's in the fiction of Norman Mailer and James Jones, in the wartime poetry of Randall Jarrell and Anthony Hecht, in the tremendous D-day invasion scenes of Saving Private Ryan. Any one of those will give you just a glimpse, but an unforgettable one, of what...
...repressive Islamic Republic of Iran, a cleric isn't a very popular thing to be nowadays. Mohsen Kadivar is a celebrated exception. A theorist behind Iran's struggling democracy movement, the modest mullah packs lecture halls like a pop star and attracts readers like a pulp-fiction author. Students in his graduate philosophy classes at Tarbiat Modarres University in Tehran hang on his every utterance. Kadivar, 44, has found academic stardom a dangerous occupation in Iran--in 1999 he was jailed for 18 months for his ideas. But his scholarly perseverance has led to breakthroughs in one of the great...
...What is incredibly impressive about him is that he has this endless reserve of knowledge,” said Margot E. Kaminski ’04, who took Stauffer’s seminar on American historical fiction and a sophomore History and Literature tutorial he co-taught. “He’s been able to recommend a minimum of 10 books for whatever topic I come to him about...
About 15,000 copies of the first issue of “queer.” featuring poetry, fiction, art and essays by students at Harvard and from colleges across the country—from Yale to Chicago to the University of California, Berkeley—were distributed in dining halls, academic lounges and resource centers, as well as at the other participating colleges last Thursday...
...about four times the number of submissions it published. Pieces that made the cut include a critical essay exploring how “Michael Jackson’s image is a project for queer study” by a student from Smith College, another on gender roles in Victorian fiction by a student from Dartmouth, and a poem entitled “Generic Dyke Rock Band,” written by BGLTSA co-chair Stephanie M. Skier ’05. Skier also performed this poem at the BGLTSA “Gaypril” kick-off earlier this month...