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Lahiri's rise is part of a changing of the guard in American fiction, from a generation in which white American-born men still play a primary role (Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace, Michael Chabon) to one in which the principal voices weren't born here, like Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat (born in Haiti), Gary Shteyngart (Russia) and Junot Díaz (the Dominican Republic). They're transnationals, writers for whom displacement and dual cultural citizenship aren't a temporary political accident but the status...
...easy charm. The audience is enchanted and seduced right up until the moment when Sweeney slits the first of many throats, and even then he retains a large share of his psychotic appeal. And Sweeney, after all, has his reasons. He’s after the lecherous Judge Turpin (Jonathan M. Roberts ’09), who, Sweeney learns, raped his wife Lucy and then adopted his young daughter Johanna (Christine K. L. Bendorf ’10). This, of course, is only the beginning of the show’s crazed perverseness. When Sweeney returns to London after spending...
Through her work as an actress, Sophie C. Kargman ’08—the recipient of this year’s Jonathan Levy Award in Drama—has really learned how to connect with people, and not just the directors, mentors, and other actors she’s worked with. Kargman also finds earnest ways to relate to her fictional characters.“I felt a lot for her,†Kargman says of Theresa, the central character of Rebecca Gilman’s “Boy Gets Girl†and a role...
...relation between those who create art and those who critique it is notoriously fraught, something that was evident quickly to the standing-room only crowd in Sever Hall last night that watched novelist Jonathan Franzen face English professor James Wood, who has been one of his toughest critics. Wood, who is also a staff writer for The New Yorker, is noted for his censure of the postmodern social novel, which he termed the “contemporary American novel in its big triumphalist form†in a 2001 review of Franzen’s novel...
...that the economy has the highest level of importance, and 79 percent said that it was the most personally relevant issue. “This is the first time since before 9/11 that young people have said that the economy is the most important [issue],†said Jonathan S. Gould ’10, student co-chair of the IOP Survey Group, who helped formulate the poll’s questions and analyze the data. Gould added that the results, which were first presented at a Washington, D.C. press conference last week, have since been sent...