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...interesting," says Alan Jacobs, author of The Narnian (HarperSanFrancisco), a new Lewis biography, "that 60 years later, nobody has really turned up." Lewis, whose day job was Oxford medievalist, did eventually get around to other work, including seven children's books about a place called Narnia. Ninety-five million Narnia books have been sold since then, and as Disney begins test screenings for its December release of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, based on the series' first volume, the septet is back near the top of the children's best-seller lists...
...dawn of the AIDS crisis. Such high-stakes political, moral, and social issues could easily overpower a less skillful writer, turning the novel into mere sermon or satire. But Hollinghurst and his fictitious alter-ego are far too smart for that.Instead, we meet a brilliant, insecure Oxford grad with an exacting, reverential, and eventually obsessive eye for beauty, whether found in the heights of a Gothic cathedral, the curves of his first lover, Leo, or the electric rush of cocaine. He finds it quite often in the work of his hero, Henry James. The consciously Jamesian touches of both Nick...
...digitally scanning copyrighted works from several libraries, including Harvard’s, without the publisher’s permission.The AAP’s filing is the second lawsuit this fall against Google and its Print Library Project, which scans volumes at Harvard, the University of Michigan, Stanford University, Oxford University, and the New York Public Library. The Authors Guild, a society of published authors, also filed a copyright lawsuit last month.With its lawsuit, the AAP is seeking a declaratory judgment from the court about the interpretation of copyright law.“The copyright laws say that you cannot...
...possesses "an awesome and at times frightening blend of brilliance, drive, competitiveness and personal intensity." That is also a pretty apt description of Walter. Like Gates, Isaacson attended Harvard, where he studied computing while majoring in history and literature. Unlike Gates, he graduated (in 1974) and then went to Oxford for two years as a Rhodes scholar. While in England he worked at London's Sunday Times, before returning to his native New Orleans to work as a reporter at the New Orleans States-Item. While there he also bought his first personal computer, a Kaypro...
...Dining has been unlimited at Harvard since the House system began,” Snyder writes. “In my understanding, prior to the House system, meals were very different experiences for the different social classes at Harvard, and the communal atmosphere of the Houses at Cambridge and Oxford were an inspiration to President Lowell and the others behind the House system here...