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Author Nick Hornby, whose books High Fidelity and About a Boy have recently met with silver screen success, read from his new novel-in-progress for the first time last night as part of visiting lecturer Zadie Smith??s Writers’ Season...
Buell said the chance to bring Smith??whose books White Teeth and Autograph Man have been critically-acclaimed bestsellers—to the department as a visiting lecturer came only because she was a Radcliffe Fellow last year...
...read Luke Smith??s op-ed piece (“Bring Back the Dead White Men,” Nov. 6) with one curry bowl-full of shock and two of amusement. Smith apparently wants to impose a whitewashed curricular canon on all Harvard students, no doubt in order to protect those values of “tolerance for many different ethnic and gendered perspectives” that makes “Western society better than its alternatives...
Putting aside the inherent contradiction and irony of those words, even if one accepts Smith??s premise (and I do not) that learning about Western cultures is more important than learning about those in the East, he should realize that in this age of Coca Cola stalls in Bangladesh and martial arts films dominating Hollywood box offices, the cultures of the two hemispheres are inseparable. Furthermore, to suggest that the teachings of Mohandas K. Gandhi were not the primary inspiration for the political philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. would be to call King himself a liar. Confucius...
...anything, Smith??s words underscore the importance of allowing all Harvard students an equal opportunity to sample the political and literary works of non-Western cultures in order to the prevent the sort of blind-eyed ignorance that his article attempts to propagate...