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...compared (by this magazine) to Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison. So it's a bit of a surprise to find that his third novel, Apex Hides the Hurt (Doubleday), is a rather modest affair, slender and conceptual in nature. Wouldn't this be the moment, tactically speaking, to kick out the jams with a massive, world-electrifying tome? It's also a bit of a surprise to find that it's pretty...
...paneled office, surrounded by about a dozen neat stacks of paper representing works in progress, he's amiable, chatty and deeply unpretentious--he refers to his writing as "scribbling." But it's at least a bit of a con--he's read practically everything, and he gets a sly kick out of reminding you of that. He references both Ibsen and Crichton, Joan Didion and Jean Genet. Before I arrived, just as a courtesy, he read my book...
...came out big and won the doubles point,” Chiu said. “Those are always crucial to give you a kick start to the match...
...kick-off event for the Harvard College Democrats’ Massachusetts Politics Week, Mass. State Senator and Middlesex County district attorney candidate Jarrett T. Barrios ’90 discussed his platform before a student gathering in the Kirkland Senior Common Room last night. Barrios, who is the first openly gay Hispanic Mass. state senator, addressed issues ranging from violent crime prevention to the gubernatorial race to the Supreme Court’s recent Solomon Amendment decision. Barrios, who will face another Democrat, Gerry Leone, in the district attorney race, advocated reforms focusing not just on winning convictions...
Harvard students will kick off a new human rights group dedicated to promoting freedom in autocratic North Korea on Wednesday evening, as the campus chapter of Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) holds its first event. LiNK is part of a broader international organization formed in March 2004 at Yale University by comedian Paul Kim and Yale student Adrian Hong. The group has grown to over 70 chapters internationally over the two years. Edward Y. Lee ’08, the founder of the Harvard chapter, wrote in an e-mail that his motivations for organizing the group were the human...