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Jill Lepore may be known around Harvard as the head honcho of the Hist and Lit Department. But during her downtime she’s been cultivating another personality: a colorful, 18th-century Scottish painter named Stewart Jameson, protagonist in her debut novel, “Blindspot.” Lepore co-authored the book, which is a parody of, and homage to, 18th-century style, with Brandeis history professor Jane Kamensky. “Blindspot” tells the story of romance and intrigue in Revolutionary War-era Boston. FM sat down with the historian for a coffee chat...

Author: By Joseph P. Shivers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Jill Lepore | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...Nevertheless, the researchers also found that 90% of respondents said that members of the Khmer Rouge should be held legally responsible for their crimes. Many, including Vann Nath, a nationally renowned painter who survived Tuol Sleng because Duch put him to work rendering portraits of Pol Pot, hope that Duch's appearance in court means the beginning of that long-delayed accountability. During a break in the hearing, Vann Nath said he had waited a long time to see his old jailer on trial. "When he was in power, he was brutal, I was afraid to look at his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Cambodia, Pol Pot's Regime on Trial at Last | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

Larry Horowitz Breathe deeply! A landscape painter who uses the brush to make poetry. In his use of color and observations of nature, he reminds me of the glorious, magnificent world in which we live. His book lives on my desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marcia Gay Harden's Short List | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...largest collection of what is known in Vietnam as Liberation Art. The biggest buyers - perhaps unsurprisingly - are American Vietnam War veterans seeking the catharsis of art. Mekong Diaries provides just that, and testifies to the ultimate futility of armed conflict. "If we were all artists," writes another featured painter, Nguyen Thu, "there would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of War | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...painting?EFF: I think it’s great.RR: What is it?EFF: It looks like a guy in the street.RR: Why is the guy’s head so small?EFF: Probably, because it’s the farthest thing away.RR: Has he grown as a painter since you’ve known him?EFF: We don’t really know him as a painter. He’s always sitting around drawing, sketching with paint markers and stuff. A lot of it is hip-hop inspired. Straight gangster rap.Sophie R. Wharton ‘11 and Madeleine...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ROVING REPORTER: VES 25: Non-Observational Painting | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

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