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This is not what I've learned from decades of Mamet plays and movies, which suggest, actually, that left alone for three seconds, two people will screw each other over in really complicated ways that need to be figured out for hours after the play, over drinks and dinner. But...
Song of Solomon should be required reading for all African-American boys. How did you know what is in our heads? -Ira Levi, Tulsa, Okla.That was a leap for me. I really wanted to do that book, about the education of a middle-class black man, about his ancestry, and...
This degree of anonymous strife and petulance would certainly threaten any great novel’s composition: Imagine if Melville and Hawthorne had been sniping at one another out in antebellum Western Massachusetts, instead of spending spring days together. There might be no Moby Dick, no Scarlet Letter. High-school...
Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) is encouraging students to talk with their mouths full. As part of recent efforts to improve communication with students, HUDS executive director Ted A. Mayer created a blog to serve as a “forum for dialogue” about issues ranging from malfunctioning...
But because Samuels rejects a structure that would flatten out the ridges in the absurdity of American reality, he often meanders and digresses; some essays don’t seem to fit in the book’s overarching theme at all. While reading the essay about Super Bowl XL...