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...release scents.”A fellow visitor commented that some of the sweat smelled “surprisingly good.” Tolaas deliberately chose scents that played with the olfactory perceptions of nationalities—was the strange lemon smell of panel #3 faintly European? Was #9 Indian? Forced to engage with a smell and no image, visitors conjure up fuzzy images that are refused confirmation in the white walls surrounding them.Bruce Nauman allows viewers to see in the dark with the help of infrared technology in “Mapping the Studio (Fat Chance John Cage...
Anita Desai knows from cruel experience about the horrors of competing for big literary awards. Three times the renowned Indian novelist has been a finalist for the MAN Booker Prize for fiction, and three times she's failed to win it. But last week, says Desai, the stress was worse than ever?because this time, the finalist was her daughter Kiran. Roused by her sister-in-law at 5 a.m. on Oct. 11, Anita turned on the television to see that Kiran, at age 35, had become the youngest woman ever to win the Booker. "I wanted it so much...
...consideration in the spring. Sixteen departments have already submitted secondary proposals to the EPC; astronomy, Celtic languages and literature, classics, English and American literature and language, engineering and applied sciences, folklore and mythology, Near Eastern languages and civilizations, government, history, linguistics, math, organismic and evolutionary biology, philosophy, Sanskrit and Indian studies, Slavic languages and literatures, and visual and environmental studies, according to Kenen. Several of these departments plan to offer more than one secondary field. For example, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures submitted a proposal suggesting two separate tracks, one in Russian studies and one in Central European...
...sharp sting of success. Last week Turkey was in the embarrassing position of having native son ORHAN PAMUK win the Nobel Prize for literature within a year of charging him with insulting Turkish identity. Critics also made much of Indian-born novelist KIRAN DESAI winning Britain's Man Booker Prize after her mum was short-listed three times for the $93,000 award. But the fuss is over. Everyone can go back to ignoring serious authors again...
Diana L. Eck is professor of comparative religion and Indian studies, Wertham professor of law and psychiatry in society, president of the American Academy of Religion, and master of Lowell House...