Word: novels
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...tough to be an almost 13-year-old boy. Even if one’s never been, still, one can imagine. But Eugene “Genie” Smalls, the protagonist of “Huge,” James W. Fuerst’s debut novel, has more than his fair share of adolescent angst with which to deal. “Huge” uses a fairly familiar archetype as its foundation—the bildungsroman—but the storyline quickly diverges from cliché to downright bizarre. The novel, narrated from the young Genie?...
...appropriately called the Fogg a “laboratory for art history.” Today, the Center for Conservation and Technical Studies has become the Straus Center for Conservation, in honor of long time benefactors Lynn and Philip A. Straus ’36. It continues to pioneer novel methods of conservation, which it then describes in its own journal. The Straus Center provides analysis and treatment for the over 150,000 objects, from all times and places, throughout Harvard’s museums and grounds. “Our primary mission is to preserve the collection...
That sentiment is echoed around the Muslim world. In many of the scores of countries that are predominantly Muslim, the latest generation of activists is redefining society in novel ways. This new soft revolution is distinct from three earlier waves of change--the Islamic revival of the 1970s, the rise of extremism in the 1980s and the growth of Muslim political parties in the 1990s...
...convincingly Californian in Paul Schrader's oneiric docudrama about Patty Hearst - another nightmare role that she approached with the passion and, especially, the precision of a mature actress. She was also exemplary as the star of the 1990 film The Handmaid's Tale, from Margaret Atwood's novel (and Harold Pinter's screenplay), in which she plays a lonely, stubborn rebel in a brutal, sterile future society...
...self-described aesthetic conservative, we can only hope that Mr. Douthat will inaugurate change not only in substance but also in style among his fellows on the right. In the spirit of the great Evelyn Waugh—from whose novel he had borrowed the title of his Crimson column—Mr. Douthat promises to bring a conservative voice to the Times that is more intelligent, more elegant, and more enjoyable to read...