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Jack Davis

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Benito Cereno

R OBERT LOWELL'S Benito Cereno traces a dark path, negating an American's ideals, showing the invalidity of his perceptions and


'Bogus'

A S OF last week, Harvard lacked a local outlet for literary criticism--with the remotely possible exception of Advocate book


Incredible Band

T HE jacket cover is repulsive. It resembles the pop psychedelia used to sell Monkees' mysticism to 14-year-olds. If you


Borges Lecturing

L EANING forward from his chair, Jorge Luis Borges focuses his nearly sightless eyes somewhere above the Sanders Theater ceiling.


The Unknown Charles Warren Center

By awarding fellowships to young foreign scholars who will return to teach in their own countries, the Center hopes to


Avatar No. 19

A VATAR wouldn't be so dull if it were shorter, smaller and edited. The good material vanishes amid oblique and


The Island

A FTER two years and six issues, The Island has entered a new phase in establishing itself as a noteworthy


Jorge Luis Borges

The Borges magic. If you'd been to the first Charles Eliot Norton lecture, you were under the spell again in