In “Alive, Alive Oh!”, Diana Athill Remembers a Remarkable Life
By Mary Kate Costigan At 97 years old, Diana Athill has a lot of story to tell. Biographical details alone will tell you that those…
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Current Events and the Big Screen: ‘Rosewater’ and the Arab Spring
By Haley Houseman. Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show encourages us to take our current events with both seriousness and levity, but the crux of his directorial…
The Theory of Everything: An Imperfect Romance of Love and Science
By Alex Nicoll The Theory of Everything begins with a scene of Stephen Hawking riding a bicycle. This image is all foreshadowing: of Stephen’s impending…
Orange is the New Black: The Memoir Behind the Hit Series
By Kelsey A. Liebenson-Morse In Piper Kerman’s 2011 memoir, Orange Is The New Black, Kerman takes the reader “inside” her fifteen-month prison sentence at Danbury…
Cheryl Strayed Talks “Wild” and “Beautiful” at Harvard Book Store
By Amanda Festa As I approached Harvard Book Store in anticipation of hearing Wild author Cheryl Strayed read from her latest work, Tiny Beautiful…