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...York attained its now partly lost eminence is the grand theme of Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 606 pages; $25), a detail-crammed psychohistory by Ann Douglas, who teaches English and comparative literature at Columbia University. As she interprets this era, the modern artists who gathered in New York to create a new American culture relied upon "terrible honesty"--a term devised by the crime writer Raymond Chandler--to overthrow the romanticizing, domineering matriarchal ethos of the late Victorian...
Between the end of World War I and the Crash of 1929, New York emerged as the world's most powerful city in finance, music making, theater, literature. How and why New York attained its now partly-lost eminence is the grand theme of this detail-crammed psychohistory (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 606 pages; $25) by Columbia University professor Ann Douglas. "Douglas' dense, rat-a-tat-tat narrative is full of surprises," says TIME critic John Elson, who notes that the author sometimes gets her details wrong. But Elson says those are minor flaws in an "erudite portrait of a dazzling...
Keith W. Light--who served last semester as a first-year proctor in Straus Hall--failed to appear at a criminal hearing in Cambridge late last year and last month moved to Palo Alto, California. Light now works for the Stanford Fund, the endowment organ of Stanford University...
...bold symphony of Dante's volgare comes to life with renewed vitality in Boston University professor Robert Pinsky's new verse translation of Inferno, the first and mostfamous of the three cantiche of the Divine Comedy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...example, the small Canaday mosque is the seventh location Muslim undergraduates have been forced into in the past six months, according to two students' count. Students have had to use locations from the Straus Hall common room to Memorial Hall to distant Vanserg Hall, which is 20 minutes' walk from the Yard...