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University President Drew G. Faust’s latest civil war book was named a finalist yesterday for the 2008 National Book Award in non-fiction. “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War?? is one of five books nominated in that category by the National Book Foundation, the non-profit literary foundation that gives out the awards. The winner will be announced next month in New York City. Faust’s sixth book takes on how Americans managed and understood death during the Civil War, her area of scholarly expertise. Published...
...beginning or end / of real love / when we pity a person / because, in him, / we see ourselves?” Armantrout said that her work draws from many facets of daily life—the poems she read referenced Anna Nicole Smith, Playboy, CNN and the Iraq War??but that it is not a comment on any particular theme of contemporary times. “I don’t think my writing is that intentional,” she said. “It reflects the world.” Armantrout was one of the first founders...
...Beijing and Shanghai today, the famous rhetorical question posed by a British textile tycoon before the Opium War??what if every Chinese added just one inch of fabric to their clothing?—has found new meaning as a generation of Chinese artists now ask What if every European collector bought just one of my paintings? As Zhu Qi, author of the essay Art Capitalism in China writes, showings of Chinese art have become an “assessment index of artist’s position in art scenes and of his market price...
...copious mentions of Harvard’s centuries-old commitment to military service—from George Washington’s Continental Army to the “Harvard Regiment” of the Civil War??often made the University’s commitment to the military seem more historical than contemporary...
...psychologists and doctors who would classify Malcolm as “handicapped,” forcing much of the burden of caring for Malcolm, who doesn’t like to speak or be touched, to fall on young Ares.In many ways, “The God of War?? is the tale of Ares’ coming-of-age. Under the weight of his responsibilities, Ares finds himself totally alone: isolated from his brother, who barely acknowledges his presence; isolated from his mother, who is busy with a rocky relationship and another pregnancy; isolated from his classmates...