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...runner-up for) the National Book Award or the Pulitzer Prize or any other major award. It was hailed as the Novel of the Future, and in fact it kicked off a temporary revival of the maxi-novel, books like Cryptonomicon and The Corrections and Underworld and White Teeth. For a moment there, it felt as though novels simply had to get longer and longer to encompass the world's galloping complexity and interconnectedness. Then the fad faded. Now Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day (1,085 pages) just seems self-indulgent and stuntish...
...Disappeared" [Nov. 6], Aparisim Ghosh's gripping story about the stark reality of the underworld of kidnapping and torture in Iraq, made me angry. If people in the region had sympathy for their neighbors, such criminality would not be tolerated. Yet greed and willful neglect of morals and humanity rule the day. What a sad state of affairs...
...artist. While this was a bit of a stretch for the first two cantatas, the parallel between myth and modern life was seamless by the end. The first cantata, “Orphée,” told the story of Orpheus’s journey to the underworld to rescue his wife, Eurydice. Kathy D. Gerlach ’07, who sang the part of several characters including Eurydice and Pluto, captured the tragic nature of the story. By definition, cantatas feature only one or two performers who are accompanied by a small orchestra. Gerlach was the only...
...quest to find the Fountain of Youth, Tommy (21st-century Jackman) races against time to find a cure for his wife’s (Rachel Weisz) fatal cancer, and Tom (26th-century Jackman) meditates on the meaning of life as he floats towards Xibalba, a nebula/mythical Mayan underworld. If this sounds a bit trippy, rest assured, it is. But, there is something deliciously intriguing about the story, even if the clichéd search for the Fountain of Youth is one of the main themes (hence the title of the film). It can be an enjoyable challenge to connect...
...holiday known in Spanish as “el Día de los Muertos,” when observers honor dead loved ones. The Peabody event featured a Mexico City-based puppet troupe, ImaginArte, which performed a play about an Aztec god’s journey to the underworld. Members of a Harvard-based band, Mariachi Veritas, provided music. It was the third time that the consulate and the museum joined to host the event, according to deputy consul Rodrigo Marquez. The Peabody includes extensive collections of Mayan and Aztec artifacts. Death was on the minds of both...