Alison S. Cohn

With Critic, Franzen Criticizes Criticism

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The relation between those who create art and those who critique it is notoriously fraught, something that was evident quickly

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As your average Harvard student traded spring break sun-worshipping for response papers and problem sets under the dreary early-April skies

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As an undergraduate, Ceridwen Dovey ’03 never took a creative writing course and eschewed the Harvard literary scene. Instead, she

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In her debut Pulitzer-winning short story collection “Interpreter of Maladies” and her novel “The Namesake,” Jhumpa Lahiri conceived of the

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What do the great-grandson of a diamond prospector, a tapeworm, and Edward Said have in common? They each figure as

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Balanchine described the narrative of his ballet “Apollo” as “a wild, untamed youth who gains nobility through art.” Though it

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Ask any two tango scholars to define their object of study and you’re likely to get three different answers. For

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“I think that most of fiction is autobiographical,” Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk reflected before a packed Memorial Church audience last

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It’s not every day that hand-quilters in Idaho share a maxim with a group known for its slogan “Never Wear

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With finals on the horizon and sunny spring break destinations beginning to seem a distant memory, who wouldn’t love a