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Best-selling author William Martin ’72’s latest novel is called Harvard Yard, and his research was first-rate —he was writing about Harvard just as son Dan F. Martin ’04 was living through...
Martin is known for epic, century-spanning novels that combine historical events with a seductive mystery. Harvard Yard spans 400 years, following fathers and sons as they experience Harvard. But this newest novel bridges the generational gap in more ways than...
...author and his son are lunching at Grafton Street, discussing the novel that has shaped each of their perspectives of Harvard. The quintessential Irish Catholic Bostonian, Martin’s roots have been good to him, serving as muse for three novels that each chronicle the development of Massachusetts...
...hundreds of years ago.'" So instead Blackman decided to turn black history on its head, inventing a country that harks back to the civil rights movement in the U.S. and apartheid in South Africa, with flagrant police brutality, pitched battles over integrated education and segregated health services. But the novel's ID cards, casual racial abuse and media stereotyping are topical in Britain today. "Especially with the rhetoric you get about asylum seekers," says Blackman. In seeking to get beneath the skin of terrorism, she is confronting an issue as raw as race. Although Noughts and Crosses was written before...
Manga comics, printed as cheap, multivolume paperbacks and sold at major bookstores, have ignited graphic-novel sales around the world. In the U.S. last year Manga racked up some $100 million, almost double 2002's sales, according to ICv2, a pop-culture trade publication. The two dominant U.S. publishers of manga, Tokyopop and Viz, will ramp up their 2004 title count to more than 300 between them. Later this year DC Comics plans to launch a manga imprint called...