Response to the Novel “Disgrace”essay The novel “Disgrace” is a story about a professor in Cape Town, South Africa. Being a scandal person, he faces many problems. To overcome these problems, he goes to live in the countryside so that the issue and the problems caused can ... ...
The Score—featuring U.S.-born Lauryn Hill and Pras Michel and Haitian immigrant Wyclef Jean—is suffused with a refugee’s sense of being forever unstuck from place and time, voracious about using every bit of cultural material it can find, like someone collaging together the elements of an...
the enigmatic Mach-Hommy quietly came out of his shell to provide some of the genre’s best music in years. For an artist who dwells in the dark, “#RICHAXXHAITIAN” finds the artists diving head first into banger territory and the result couldn’t be more refreshing. Mach-Hommy’...
an image of a dead pig being eaten by maggots, and an audaciously self-indulgent scene where a character seems to be possessed by a Pauline Kael essay, Kaufman dares to explore the vast gulfs that separate people from each other, and from their own self-perceptions.David Robb...
These are just a fewkernelsof wisdom from Class of 2019. As part of our annual ‘Meet the Class’ series, we ask selected first-years to offer a piece of advice to prospective students on how to Improve their odds of being accepted into a leading MBA program. From self-analysis to GMAT...
letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. The New York Times has named Here is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and The New Yorker calls it “the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the ...
Sure, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a celebrated Hollywood film with an all-star cast of Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, and Ezra Miller — but, as the saying goes, the book is always better. In his original novel, Stephen Chbosky has crafted a sensitive, deeply powerful story about a...
One of the great contemporary novelists and essayists, Oates is also a boxing historian of deep knowledge and passion. On Boxing is one of the great treatises on this most visceral and destructive of sports, describing with uncanny insight the ways in which the savage spectacle of fights like...
The Black Jacobins is the authoritative history of the Haitian Revolution of 1794, the first revolution in the Third World."The prospect of a Black Republic is equally disturbing to the Spanish, the English and the Americans. Jefferson has promised that on the instant the French army has arrive...
Director Thomas Heise explores the history of Germany through the past four generations of his family. Using archival footage of his relatives, he tells a deeply personal story that also speaks to a much larger experience than his own. This essay on film is a unique yet touching exploration of...