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...sequel to The Crazed, 51-year-old Ha Jin's latest novel A Free Life begins, chronologically, where that book left off - a sort of literary diptych. It's July 1989, a month after Tiananmen, with gloom and anxiety still charging the atmosphere. Chinese student and would-be poet Nan Wu and his wife Pingping are living near Boston while Nan finishes his Ph.D. at Brandeis, and they have no desire to return to a paranoid, post-Tiananmen China. Instead, they send for their only child, 6-year-old Taotao, who has been living with his grandparents in Shandong province...
While three Harvard students won Rhodes Scholarships this year, Lowell House resident Megan E. Galbreth ’08 is the only Harvard undergraduate to have bagged the prestigious Marshall Scholarship. Galbreth, who is interested in the poet Geoffrey Chaucer and will use the funds to study medieval literature at Oxford, said in an interview that she was “overjoyed” when she heard the news on Monday. “I am so excited to live in England—to experience a new culture and a different atmosphere,” she said. Galbreth...
Boris, a scholarship boy and avid sportsman at the exclusive boarding school Eton, is academically gifted. But his reports there worried that he might squander his huge potential by spreading himself too thin. It's a habit he's maintained in overlapping careers as a journalist, novelist, poet, classical historian, media personality and politician. "My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it," says Johnson, who became editor of the venerable U.K. political magazine the Spectator in 1999 and swiftly reneged on a promise to Conrad Black, its proprietor at the time, not to seek a parliamentary...
...Jude” is a folk musician who has gone electric and gone to drugs. “Billy,” an older man living in peace and nature, has run far away from his past. And “Arthur Rimbaud,” a symbolist poet, grapples with questions about his work and its meaning in an angsty and ironic manner. Haynes’ innovative decision to use multiple actors to represent Dylan comprehensively depicts the well-known musician’s many dimensions. The audience must mentally readjust to every jarring transformation, forced to reconcile their...
...silence, with a shot of a classic black-and-white notebook labeled “Nas Rhymes” opening up like a fairytale book. Scribbled on the ruled paper inside is the declaration, “This is the story of hip-hop’s greatest poet...” Following this humble statement, a mysterious hand inserts a cassette tape into a car stereo, and the music begins. Nostalgia remains the dominant theme throughout the video. “Surviving the Times” presents a scrapbook-style montage of images and memories from Nas?...