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What happens to a peace deferred? More than 800 Israeli and 2,200 Palestinian deaths into the second intifada—deaths that scorn Bush’s Roadmap, like Clinton’s efforts at Oslo, Camp David and Taba—Langston Hughes would answer without equivocation. It...
Ryan D. Hughes ’06 concurs, having stumbled upon the clubhouse in New York City while walking home from work last summer. He discovered that students can obtain summer memberships for $150, and took advantage of the club as a base in the city during his summer internship...
The facts of Sylvia Plath's life are better known, but the story that lies behind them is no less mysterious. She met Ted Hughes at a party at Cambridge University in 1956. He was 25 and craggily handsome. She was 23, bright, pretty and vivacious--the word is hard...
Plath and Hughes were wed just four months after they met, and the marriage burned fast and hot. Diane Middlebrook's Her Husband (Viking; 361 pages) takes us inside the tight, intense feedback loop of two obsessive, competitive writers who read and critiqued each other's work fresh from the...
Plath's story has been told many times--most recently in a film starring Gwyneth Paltrow--but Middlebrook's biography is the first to draw on the papers Hughes left after his death in 1998. Her goal is to clarify his side of the story and to some extent to...