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...English department newbie James Wood, who The Washington Times considers “the most incisive literary critic of our time,” can prove that friendship is possible even after giving a negative review...
...Republic critique of Zadie Smith’s second novel, The Autograph Man, Wood scathingly noted that the novel felt like “a newspaper designed by a kindergartner.” A year later, in the fall of 2003, he took a lecturing job in the same department where Smith was employed. “We were both quite nervous about meeting each other,” Wood explains, adding that he usually avoids meeting the authors he disparages. But the two “got on very well” and were quick to find that they...
...that “privileges...the fantastic, the paranoid,” he says. To Wood’s delight, though, Smith has since sent him excerpts—since the two are, after all, friends now—of her newest novel, On Beauty, due out in September. Wood notes that Smith seems to have reverted to her comedic roots in the new novel and hints that it may be set at Harvard. “I liked it very much,” he says, although he has only read a couple of pages...
...water tube for the spotted seals, gave the panthers rock ledges to nestle on, and lets the king penguins out of their enclosure for a daily (albeit supervised) stroll through the zoo grounds. Monkeys are no longer fed from bowls but forage happily for food now hidden among the wood chips and foliage. It's a stimulating environment that has done wonders for the animals. "You can see it in their eyes," says Kosuge. "They are happy because they are doing what they want." His reforms have paid off commercially, too, given that happy animals equal happy visitors...
...seed of Schlesinger’s present collection is a set of books, papers, and memorabilia donated to Radcliffe College in 1943 by Maud Wood Park, Class of 1898. To house this donation, the Women’s Archives was established. They expanded through the 1940’s and 1950’s to become the Schlesinger Library, which moved to its present location, between Brattle and Garden Streets, in 1967. The library is named after Harvard University Historian Arthur Schlesinger and his wife Elizabeth...