NER intern Isabelle Stillman chatted recently with author Mateal Lovaas Ishihara about “Crossing Harvard Yard,” her short story published in NER 36.4. Isabelle Stillman: Your piece is based on the Cyril Wilcox suicide and Harvard’s Secret Court of 1920—you might call this historical fiction. What is your connection to the genre and what about this historical moment called […]
Month: March 2016
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Behind the Byline
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Laws of Motion It was supposed to be part of a revolution, he said. The Suprematists weren’t just looking to create art—they sought a universal connection and a new way of thinking for society. Utopia. Transcendence. To that end, Kazimir Malevich stripped realism from his canvases and instead inserted simple shapes, geometric abstraction meant to […]
