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...that seemed to distinguish her on campus, Alfaro said. In her time as a Radcliffe College student Alfaro said she recalled that there were professors who would rather cancel class than speak freely on certain subjects—such as the novel “Finnegan’s Wake??—in front of women...

Author: By Erika P. Pierson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rosana Y. Alfaro | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...self-definition, writing during a war, or about war (or really, any writing) is an act of self-confirmation. Words help to explain the traumatic reality of war, to make sense of it, and then to live in it and to live in its wake??whether it be John Singleton Copley’s letters from Europe to his half-brother Henry Pelham back in America or Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead. As I read these things, I learned something about reading the literature of war (or really, any reading...

Author: By Emily C. Graff | Title: On the History and Literature of America | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...show was divided into three stages—the dream, the nightmare, and the wake??and each scene incorporated variations on an Alice in Wonderland theme. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...

Author: By Beverly E. Pozuelos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fabolous a No Show at Eleganza | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...brought charges against one of her biggest fans, Steven Vander Ark, for his plans to publish a Harry Potter lexicon. By the standard of Rowling’s complaint, Joseph Campbell could not have published the invaluable “Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake?? five years after Joyce published his masterwork. The “act for the encouragement of learning” is being used to empower an author to censor an unapproved explication of her works...

Author: By Harry R. Lewis | Title: Copyright Harvard 2008 | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...legalize the forced medication of the “mentally ill.” Given the sordid history of government involvement with “mental illness,” Mayor Martin J. Chávez is leading Albuquerque—and the rest of the country in his wake??down a very slippery slope...

Author: By Alex Harris | Title: Big Brother Psychiatry | 11/20/2006 | See Source »

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