Tag: Novelist

  • Nation & World

    A room of one’s own

    Excerpt from “The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s” by Maggie Doherty.

    15 minutes
    Bunting fellows.
  • Nation & World

    Lost in translation

    Israeli author David Grossman spoke Tuesday about becoming immersed in his writing and his characters during a packed talk in the Science Center.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Updike papers acquired by Houghton Library

    Harvard University has acquired a massive treasure trove of papers from one of its most famous literary graduates, John Updike ’54, the multifaceted novelist, short-story writer, poet, and critic who died last January.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    From the borderline

    Under a big tent set for lunch in breezy Radcliffe Yard on Friday (June 8), Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison offered a gathering of 950 graduates, fellows, and friends a brief meditation on the oblique efficacy of the humanities. She said these “creative, imaginative arts” counsel, goad, and interrogate American culture from its own borders.

    4 minutes
    Toni Morrison.