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Fierce has been the uproar surrounding the French National Assembly’s recent efforts to outlaw the wearing of the burka (a full veil that masks a woman’s face and body, worn by some Muslim women). Although France has so far only managed to pass a non-binding resolution that calls the burka contrary to French republican values, many say a full ban is not far away...
Over the last three decades, literary scholars have utterly failed literature. Our sales pitch has worn thin. To an increasing number of students, our claims that literature refines the mind, makes one a more interesting and intellectually supple person, sound pretentious, or worse, therapeutic. The Arnoldian notion that culture elevates us, makes us empathetic and sensitive, is just not true. Don’t believe me? You should hear English professors discuss each other’s work! Students want to be empowered by knowledge, not refined or made precious by it. The age of the snob has passed. There...
...first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “This Side of Paradise,” one of my all time favorites, in the stacks level 2E was a moment of sublime excitement. And whenever I walk through the stacks and pick up the well-worn books or sit in the reading rooms and work, I cannot help but think of the brilliant minds and powerful people who have walked by those shelves, sat in those chairs, and held in their hands those books before...
...attendees had the pleasure of watching models saunter down the runway in designer duds from a broad range of labels including Marc Jacobs, Marchesa, Banana Republic, and DKNY. These couture brands weren’t worn by professional models, but instead by 35 HBS students and their partners—including former beauty pageant winner Miss Malaysia...
...write a follow-up to his prize winning first book. Similarly, Martel's Life of Pi won the Man Booker Prize in 2002, and now he's produced a follow-up in the form of Beatrice and Virgil. This kind of metafictional loop has become a convention as well-worn as those it was meant to explode. Somebody needs to come up with a fifth wall to break. (See the all TIME 100 novels...