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This past Saturday, the Harvard men’s soccer team continued on its path of regional domination. Under the lights of Fairfield University’s Lessing Field, the No. 12 Crimson trampled the Stags, 4-1, and increased its winning streak to five for the season. While the...
Having produced extraordinary works by the likes of Peter Godwin (Mukiwa), Alexandra Fuller (Scribbling the Cat) and Nobel laureate Doris Lessing, Zimbabwe's troubles seem to prove that you need to suffer for your art. But those authors are white, and Zimbabwe is a country of millions of blacks, whose...
Like last year's winner, Doris Lessing, Le Clézio has strong ties to Africa - he was born in Nice in 1940, but his family history on both sides leads back to Mauritius, an island about 500 miles east of Madagascar that has been best known in the West...
Even at 88, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing refuses to play the role of Britain's elder literary stateswoman. "As you get older, you don't get wiser," she says. "You get irritable." Her latest book, Alfred and Emily (out in the U.S. on August 5), recounts her childhood on a...
With Lessing entering the twilight of her life, it's hard not to read Alfred and Emily as an act of atonement. Drawing on decades of hindsight, she accepts that her mother's war wounds, though less visible, ran as deep as her father's - and she endeavors to heal...