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...unbecoming to an artist. Indeed, counterfeiting another's creativity is anathema to any honest painter or writer. With his previous novel, Peter Carey took that idea and gave it a macabre twist. In My Life as a Fake, he reimagined Australia's infamous Ern Malley affair - the 1944 literary hoax played by antimodernists Harold Stewart and James McAuley, who posed as a dead working-class poetic "genius" - by bringing a fabricated identity to life to haunt its creator. The novel's sprawling narrative was as gin-soaked and overripe as its Kuala Lumpur setting, but Carey's theme was sobering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Literary Steal of Approval | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...Edward Glaeser fortunately, and to his credit, has apologized,” Schmid said. In an interview with The Crimson last month, Glaeser drew a comparison between a magazine article that criticized Summers and the early-20th century anti-Semitic hoax “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” But Glaeser later said that he did not intend to suggest that the magazine article—or any criticism of Summers—was motivated by anti-Semitism...

Author: By Allison A. Frost and Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Tensions Linger at Closed FAS Meeting | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

Glaeser said on Wednesday that he regretted making the comparison, which recalled a notorious anti-Semitic hoax that first appeared in a Russian-language newspaper in 1903. The similarity he meant to point out, Glaeser said, was “that people use defamatory information for their own political objectives...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Did Summers’ Faith Affect His Fall? | 3/3/2006 | See Source »

...Scholars also question the style of the map, a hemispheric projection that the Chinese aren't known to have used until the 16th century. Geoff Wade, a Ming expert at the National University of Singapore, says the map is "clearly a hoax," and was "probably made in the last few years." He observes: "If you've seen any of the maps from Zheng He's voyages, they're in a completely different style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History's Mysteries | 1/23/2006 | See Source »

...tale to issue public apologies. “The reality is this could have been prevented at many points along the way and it wasn’t,” Barrow said. “This was a conscious and deliberate attempt to perpetrate a hoax.” Barrow said that the faculty members should not have told the press about the student’s story before verifying it, and he said that their behavior demonstrated an ideological bent in addition to poor judgment. This incident, Barrow said, was another example of “a faculty...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UMass Student Admits Inventing ‘Little Red’ Tale | 1/3/2006 | See Source »

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