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...decided to go to Paris: fourteen lines of pure Metro, speeding and screeching under some of the world’s most celebrated monuments...
...that the only thing that matters is ambition and technique, both of which Wayne has in spades. Whether that debate will be solved on radio stations, in dorm room debates, or on the streets, one thing is for certain: “Tha Carter III” is pure fire. —Staff writer Alec E. Jones can be reached at aejones@fas.harvard.edu...
Eudora Welty’s stories rank among my favorite works that I read in my high school English class, partially out of pure southern pride. But, with her simple statements of the absurd, her stories also capture the essence of those moments of human existence that are funny, darkly real, or a combination of both. Her characters ask questions like “Do you think it wise to disport with ketchup in Stella-Rondo’s flesh-colored kimono?” even when they lead suffocating lives. They are closed in by poverty and the small...
...England, and India), its characters and storylines are pleasantly connected and often hilarious.And so I sat tucked in the back of a station wagon as my family and I drove from Illinois to Maine on our annual cross-country trek and found myself laughing out loud in pure delight at Levy’s work while my thesis reading sat beside me, neglected. And in the hours I spent in the car, I rediscovered the sort of unpretentious writing that can distill even the heaviest themes into what is simply a good book.—Emma M. Lind
...television stations, software corporations, and Major League Baseball. I was a girl conflicted. At one show, I stood behind a man in a Yankees hat. I thought this was supposed to be a weekend of all things pleasurable, so how was it that someone who so obviously worshiped pure evil could exist here too?“What are you doing here?” I thought at this giant spectacle in the middle of nowhere. “Where my hippies at?”Among the fields of camped out college students, there were also fathers toting strings...