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Ray Finch, our hero, is an American who teaches at a private school in Botswana. At 48 he is a contented man, even a little self-satisfied, but who could blame him? He's a literary scholar, in a modest way, and ardently married to Iris, who is beautiful, sexy...
That's right: Ray works for the CIA gathering information about local political operatives, in particular a brilliant, charismatic local doctor. (Poor, hot and ravaged by AIDS, Rush's Botswana practically vibrates with political instability.) This isn't just a whim on the author's part: Mortals comes with the...
In all his identities Ray is an obsessive interpreter: he relentlessly decodes everything he sees and hears, whether it's a surveillance tape, Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach or a chance remark by his wife. "You turn into a kind of crouched thing, a crouched listening beast," the anguished Iris...
The people who work here spend our days and more than a few of our nights trying to capture life in the pages of TIME. So it was a neat reversal last week to watch the pages of TIME come to life. At the Royal Opera House in London's...
I’m not the first female Harvard androgyne to be mistakenly called “sir,” nor will I be the last. Iris Z. Ahronowitz ’03-’04 recalls a Chem 10 lecture two years ago, when Professor Dudley Herschbach...