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Welcome to Postwar (nothing to do with war) British (does Trinidad count as British?) and American (Russian-American, that is) Fiction. In a fair world, this course would be called "Books that James Wood Likes." At Harvard we call it English 168d...
...class is relatively painless, though it is taught in French. Parlez-vous anglais? Non! A new offering, FC 85, “Japan Pop: From Basho to Banana,” teaches anime and manga, alongside other eclectic elements of Japanese popular culture. FC 72, “Russian Culture from Revolution to Perestroika,” taught by well-liked professor Svetlana Boym, offers Revolution-era avant-garde art, socialist realist works (including Eisenstein and the cinematic montage school), and other decidedly cool Russian stuff.Our top pick is FC 76, “Nazi Cinema: Fantasy Production...
...area can come around to bite you in the ass if you aren’t careful. Some take a lot of planning to make them manageable (Lit and Arts C is full of landmines that’ll have you tackling the genesis of the archetypical peasant in Russian literature for a semester), but a few Core areas aren?...
Seventeen of Harvard’s Russian bells hang in the Lowell belltower; the other sits atop the Business School’s Baker Library. They are more than 100 years old, with one dating back to the 17th century, according to the Lowell House website...
Aside from being home to one of the few sets of Russian bells that survived Stalin’s regime, the Lowell belltower is also known for hosting raucous parties that attract students from across the campus...