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Salman Rushdie, whose 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses” triggered the Supreme Leader of Iran to issue a fatwa against him that sentenced Rushdie to death and forced him into hiding for many years, braved the Harvard community Friday night to speak at Memorial Church for...

Author: By Arianna Markel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Humanist Forum Hosts Rushdie | 4/23/2007 | See Source »

Reading the resulting piece - which Life published in its May 13, 1957, issue (one that is not online, unfortunately) - is hilarious today. Wasson describes his hallucinations at great length, in reverent terms: "The visions were not blurred or uncertain. They were sharply focused. I felt that I was now seeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Elite Loved LSD | 4/23/2007 | See Source »

When the acclaimed novelist Gary Shteyngart appeared at the Brattle Theatre for a freewheeling discussion on Monday, the topics ranged from being paid in cheese for his first writing assignment to avoiding the sophomore slump to emigrating from the Soviet Union. He also read from his second novel, ?...

Author: By Kimberly B. Kargman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Shteyngart Tells of Real-Life Absurdity | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

It’s early evening, four days before the vote opens on a referendum that would reform Harvard’s academic calendar, and Undergraduate Council (UC) Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09—one of the two men on campus for whom the issue...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UC V.P. More Than Just A Campus V.I.P. | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

More than 200 undergraduates and University affiliates gathered yesterday for a late-night vigil at Memorial Church to remember the 32 victims of Monday’s mass shooting at Virginia Tech. The candle-lit service began on the South Porch of the historic building, followed by a service inside...

Author: By Jessica A. Estep, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Vigil Mourns Va. Tech Loss | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

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