The disappearing writer Op Ed November 5, 2014 4 Comments If you are reading this in a dining hall, look up: do you think you could assemble a list of 5 living writers that the majority of the dining hall would recognize? The list would likely falter after... Read More »
Read this book: Cutting for Stone Michaela Elias September 23, 2014 0 Comments Interdisciplinary is a term that gets tossed around a lot these days, a sought after label whose true meaning sometimes gets lost in the academic rhetoric. Not so with Abraham Verghese, a professor... Read More »
Honey, I shrunk the grad students Sarah Guan December 2, 2011 0 Comments Part tech-thriller and part wilderness adventure, “Micro” is the story of seven graduate researchers at a Harvard biology lab who go on a recruiting trip to Nanigen MicroTechnologies,... Read More »
Author finds humanity in sci-fi books Sarah Guan October 14, 2011 0 Comments Stephenson, in formal, nondescript black, took the podium amidst vigorous applause and opened with a succinct plot summary of "Reamde," his latest novel: "It's a lot of people running around shooting... Read More »
Stanford appears in ‘Knife Music’ Zoe Leavitt October 26, 2010 0 Comments The Stanford portrayed in Carnoy's recent novel, "Knife Music,," teems with gun-toting frat boys, guzzled pills, sexual assault and casual blackmail with horrific consequences. Read More »
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