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...their jobs and relationships.Maria’s death brings Gabriel and his sister Isabella to St. Petersburg, the seedy seat of their family’s history, plunging readers into the psyche of their sharp, cruel, solipsistic, and utterly absorbing father, and slowly pulling an abandoned son??the embittered, talented, consummately Russian Arkady—into the familial constellation. Docx has a stunning talent for communicating the essence of a person, group, or place in a single brushstroke that’s incisive, sometimes strange, and always evocative. One reads, for instance, of women in a posh...
...yeast activity.Under the tutelage of Senior Lecturer on Chemistry Gregory Tucci, Eisele began his first independent study course in the spring of his junior year, while also pursuing an unpaid internship at Harpoon Brewery.Eisele’s mother, Anne Eisele, says she was supportive yet surprised by her son??s academic pursuit. “At first I thought he was joking,” she says. “I didn’t even realize that Harvard had an independent study program.”During his internship at Harpoon, Eisele worked three times...
...character is found repeatedly whipping through that Technicolor obstacle course of cognition. Why? Well, plot development—Gardner needs to have his ‘prodigy’ moment, of course—and because Will Smith likes Rubik’s Cubes. Furthermore, Gardner’s son??five in the film—was only a toddler when he was chasing the office job:no existential questions or heartbreaking dialogue in the real thing, only gurgling...
...pancake house in “Awaiting Orders” is literally cathartic—these military stories are spectacular because they access the consequences of military involvement through personal relationships. War becomes diffused through a soldier’s attraction to a woman, a father remembering his son??s face. This familiarity is what makes “Our Story Begins” such a delight. Wolff pares his stories down to the core of fiction. He understands that even the most charged issues must be rendered not on a soapbox or in a drama...
...they be informed whenever the college believes their child is in trouble. While there are privacy rules to consider, we should never again see the tragedy that occurred at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last year when the college denied a student’s mother access to her son??s dorm room and computer until she obtained a search warrant, even though the Federal Bureau of Investigation was searching for him as a missing person. The student was found dead a week later...