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Julia and Valentina are frighteningly similar. As mirror-image twins, they are perfectly symmetrical to one another. Valentina’s heart is even located on the opposite side of her chest, causing her …
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When I picked up Swamplandia! for the first time, I was confused. Depicted on the cover in cartoon-style artistry is a little girl, braids blowing in the breeze, sitting atop a …
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Books, quite frankly, are awesome. They are doorways to other worlds; they are reservoirs of knowledge. They are almost always better than the movie. The Boston Book Festival (BBF) was …
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To kill another human being is an action that most people cannot fathom. The desire to wipe out an entire group of people, therefore, is on the verge of unimaginable. …
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Many have suffered from serious withdrawal since July 15. It was an emotional day; for some, it felt like childhood’s end as the final installment of the Harry Potter film series …
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The economy is in shambles, the government is divided on every important issue and there is yet another disappointment to add to the list: the country has fallen behind. “In …
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B.U. students and faculty members celebrated Harlem Renaissance leader Alain Locke’s birthday on Tuesday evening. Visiting lecturer Jeffrey Stewart spoke to the crowd about Locke’s famous ideas on “Negro Art,” …
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Beneath a harsh spotlight that highlighted his salt-and-pepper hair, and face worn by drugs and years of partying, Steve Almond spewed curse words like a kid who had just discovered …
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Author and screenwriter Dennis Lehane spoke at Suffolk University’s Modern Theatre Thursday night in a dialogue with Boston University Cinematheque curator and film critic Gerald Peary on life in Dorchester, the novels he’s written, and the films he’s worked on.
Read MoreOk, so you have maybe five days at home, longer if you skipped Monday and Tuesday classes or were lucky enough to have them canceled. Sure, papers are due the …
Read MoreHere’s one of my favorite poems below, as a sort of extension to the language article written this past issue. I don’t think it’s necessary for me to go into …
Read MoreIt’s November; stop shaving and start writing.
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