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Cortázar’s demands on the reader’s engagement are perhaps most obvious, however, in the novel’s structure. “Hopscotch” can be read either linearly, from Chapter 1 through Chapter 155, or it can be tackled in the...
Happily, these narrative games don’t slide into mere linguistic exercises. The thanks for this is due largely to the playfulness of the characters, who speak in slangy “Gliglish” and meet in the self-proclaimed “cemetery of language.?...
Fusing the genres of introspective drama and explosive action calls for a delicate balance, but director Neill Blomkamp’s protagonist in “District 9”—who becomes a human-alien hybrid—reflects the success of such half-breeds. After being...
Harvard kids have sex. Sometimes they do drugs. But it’s not often that they rock ‘n’ roll. Last Wednesday at Harvard Rocks NYC, five bands featuring Harvard alumni took to the stage in the first off-campus music festival to bring Crimson...
Fiery Furnaces’ eigth studio album, “I’m Going Away,” is, appropriately enough, a departure. For some bands, that might suggest an unprecedented foray into weirdness, but for the Furnaces, that means abandoning experimental tendencies for unexpected accessibility. The album opens...