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...introducing them to authors they would otherwise not have come across. “Most Harvard College students could discover major SF prose writers such as James Tiptree and Cordwainer Smith on their own,” Burt explains, “but you don’t unpack your bags in Matthews knowing all of these writers already, unless you’re quite an unusual reader.” With the intention of cultivating more ‘unusual readers,’ the course presents an eccentric syllabus that has elicited praise from students, who say they...
Jonathan Safran Foer is fascinated by trauma. His first novel, the critically acclaimed “Everything is Illuminated,” chronicled his young facsimile’s eastern European journey to unpack the lives of his Holocaust-survivor relatives. “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,” his second, was a deeply-felt emotional mosaic about the resonance between the 9/11 attacks and the Dresden firebombings. Foer’s first work of nonfiction, “Eating Animals,” has a different sort of trauma in mind: the suffering inflicted on livestock...
...husband and young son, she fled first to Jordan, then Turkey, Argentina and Ecuador. Everywhere they went, inhospitable immigration rules prevented them from even trying to put down roots. It wasn't until they were finally granted asylum in the U.S. last year that the Aljanabys could finally unpack their lives and settle down...
There will be two sets of Winter Games in 2010. First up, Feb. 12-28, will be the 21st Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, a quick return to North America after a sojourn in Italy in 2006. No need to unpack the cold-weather clothes, because four months later, in the midst of winter in the southern hemisphere, will be the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Ever since the International Olympic Committee decided to stagger the Summer and Winter Games after 1992, the frozen sports have been played in the same year as the World Cup, giving fans...
...illustrates Roberts’ central message of art interacting with life, and her point seems to be getting across to students. “From her classes, I have learned to investigate art and everyday objects which seem benign,” says Dube, “and to unpack and question the loaded meanings that these objects can have for their users, and for society at large...