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...Middle Eastern prince’s many “doubles,” and “The Last Days of Muhammad Atta,” an imagining of the terrorist mastermind’s final hours. Perhaps more than the non-fiction, the stories illustrate the author??s sociopathic lack of empathy. In “Last Days,” for instance, Atta is constipated. Because Atta was actually constipated in the days and hours before steering American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center? No. Because Amis wanted...
...going to mention him in my entrance essay; the thinking was that the name-drop might bring some ‘pop’ to an otherwise mundane isle of prose. But it’s so much easier pretending to like Infinite Jest now that its author??s atop the big reading list in the sky. I suffered through half of that thing back in 2005, back when the guy was kicking around Claremont—what a waste of time that...
...been a great thing. And I can’t imagine having gone anywhere else.”Jenkins’ musing was as unprovoked as it was profound, and it amounted to a ringing endorsement of a Harvard education.***This final sports column is usually reserved for the author??s nostalgic, sentimental reflections on his or her collegiate writing career. But enough about me. More than a few of my Crimson columns through the years ventured into the first person. I’ve shared personal predictions, opinions, and family anecdotes. At its best, this...
...while Samuels does an astonishing job conveying the sense of malaise that affects our lives, his book, at times, feels like little more than a compilation of the author??s best clips. Though they show that Samuels can write almost everything about almost anything, the book’s somewhat haphazard construction obscures his message about how we can live the good life—or, at least, how it is that we’re failing...
...died last November.“I’m an important part of his life,” Mallory said. “I was. I am.” The former model and actress said she sent the archive to Harvard to recognize her significance in the author??s life.In 1983, Mallory went to a restaurant in New York with her date “Buzz,” who introduced her to his best friend: Norman Mailer.The incongruence between his terrible reputation and his seemingly “kind, cherubic” manner immediately piqued...