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...that “it’s probably pretty rare” for a non-tenured professor to win an award of this caliber. Geraldine Brooks, currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for “March,” a novel that imagines a year in the life of the absent father from Louisa May Alcott’s classic, “Little Women.”Nicholas D. Kristof ’81 and Joseph F. Kahn ’87, both former Crimson editors and current writers...
...cartoon in the first place? For that matter, would it be better if on May 19 we were to discover that director Ron Howard had decided not to paint the grotesque portrait of Opus (which has its weirdnesses, but probably not including assassination) that Dan Brown did in his novel...
...DIED. MURIEL SPARK, 88, British author of poetry, short stories and more than 20 novels whose elegantly spare, often satirical writing explored morality and perceptions of truth; in Florence, Italy. A Foreign Office propagandist during World War II, Spark converted to Catholicism in 1954 and credited her faith for "inner stability which enables me to write better." Her best-known novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), about an eccentric, Mussolini-worshipping teacher at a girls' school, was based on Spark's Edinburgh school days. Maggie Smith won an Oscar for playing the title role in the 1969 film...
Howard wants the movie to be seen as faithful to the novel but not noxious to the faithful. "With something as controversial as this," says Howard, "if you try to soften the edges, you're kidding yourself. Either you're dealing with these ideas or you're not." Asked about the book's villainous cabal, he acknowledges, "Yeah, Opus Dei is in the movie." Then, moments later, "I don't say it in the movie one way or the other"--hinting that the society is described but not identified...
...shaped. And he isn't talking. When the diagnosis comes--Daniel is autistic--Melanie's very proper English husband Stephen walks out, leaving her to feel her way forward with only a mysterious child and an army of (mostly) unhelpful doctors to guide her. This is a tearful, joyful novel, and Leimbach (Dying Young) comes by tears and joy honestly: she has an autistic...