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Sanders I. Bernstein

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Ill Will

The psychological trauma of having to spend any time in a hospital is hard enough as is without having those who are supposed to “help” only helping increase our sense of shame.


The Return of Boston's Patron 'Saints'

Have you heard of “The Boondock Saints”? Two Irish brothers enter a room full of Italian (or Russian) mobsters. Gothic ...


Bernstein Bares It All

If you have any objections to the settlement struck between Google Books Search and the publishing industry, you better send


Colson Whitehead '91

The work of Arch C. Whitehead ’91 (better known as Colson Whitehead) has been invariably compared to Ralph Ellison’s masterpiece,


Colson Whitehead ’91

The work of Arch C. Whitehead ’91 (better known as Colson Whitehead) has been invariably compared to Ralph Ellison’s masterpiece,


Five And A Half Years Later, Bernstein Bites Back

Dear Ms. Laura Miller— About five and a half years ago today, I read an article of yours in the


Awards Should go to the Living

Though the National Book Critics Circle Award carries no money, its posthumous awarding to Roberto Bolaño for his monster of


Revealing Art's Social Potential

It’s only been a few centuries since art has become a thing apart from the rest of the social world.


The Role of Artists in the Face of Recession

CORRECTION APPENDED Ever since Socrates banished us from his Republic, artists (and, as is my case, would-be artists) have had


Morrissey

It might just be the distorted looking glass of the last 20 years, but there’s something about the 1980s and