The opera stage is a place of play and possibility, especially when it comes to the rules of gender. Women often portray men—or even depict men pretending to be women—delighting audiences with inversions and transformations that titillate, amuse, and often illuminate greater truths. DR. LAURENCE SENELICK, professor, actor, director, and author of the leading study […]
Find out more »Harvard Book Store is pleased to present New Yorker staff writer ELIF BATUMAN, author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them for a reading from her debut novel, The Idiot. About The Idiot: The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman […]
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.