Tag: Alice Flaherty

  • Arts & Culture

    Who is your favorite literary hero, villain?

    Some of Harvard’s best-known readers, writers weigh in.

    5–8 minutes
    Book covers: "Ulysses"; "The Plague"; "Sabbath's Theater"; "The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ"; "Water-blue Eyes"; "Othello"; "Breakfast at Tiffany's"; "Reynard the Fox."
  • Campus & Community

    The brains behind writer’s block

    “It’s likely that writing and other creative work involve a push-pull interaction between the frontal and temporal lobes,” Harvard Medical School neurology instructor Alice Flaherty speculates. If the temporal lobe activity holds sway, an aspiring scribe may turn out 600 logorrheic pages. If the temporal lobes are restrained by frontal lobe changes, the result might…

    1–2 minutes