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...Though “Pericles” has its dark moments, it is ultimately a comedy. “Pericles is just a normal guy who encounters the wackiest of the wacky, and humors us all as he navigates through the horror show of his travels,” Federman says...
What’s strange is that although the images are so surreal, they seem familiar, as though Vu has found a way to tap into the primordial subconscious of a fairytale. There is something sublime about the pain on the canvas, and the exquisite care with which each detail is executed...
Vu’s progression towards becoming an artist was in some ways unexpected. Though she says she has always had a passion for art, in her first year and a half at Harvard she focused on Molecular and Chemical Biology, taking only one VES class each semester. Her interest in medicine came from spending time with her father when he was hospitalized with cancer. She was accepted to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute internship program, which she participated in for three years before focusing wholly on her art in her senior year. Though she now has a secondary...
...contemporary affairs, are nevertheless not the most compelling ones in his collection. Rather, the most riveting moments in “Wait” come from Williams’ autobiographical ruminations, which give his reader glimpses of the past out of which this careful, quiet poetic personality has evolved. Though it is hard to imagine this wise voice as a wayward student, in one poem, Williams disparagingly describes the self of his school days: “I was an indifferent student; I fidgeted, / daydreamed, didn’t do my homework, didn’t / as my teachers often...
...understand now what drove him: all artists know times when the gates close, / or when everything you continue is despoiled by haste,” he writes. As Williams revisits his earlier memories, he eloquently shows the thought process behind his revisions of his understanding of his own life. Though as a young man the actions of his mentor seemed unfathomable, from this end of his career, Williams is able to understand the older writer’s paralyzing lack of confidence...