Arizona State University officials say a postdoctoral research scholar remains on leave as the school investigates his videotaped confrontation with a hijab-wearing woman at a pro-Israel rally last weekend. Sunday’s event was held near the university’s Tempe campus and attended by Jonathan Yudelman, a scholar at ASU’s School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership….
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News Massachusetts scholar finds poems and stories believed to be written by Louisa May Alcott under a pseudonym
Louisa May Alcott, the author of “Little Women,” may have written more works than readers were aware of, thanks to a scholar who made an interesting discovery. Max Chapnick, a postdoctoral teaching associate at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, believes he found roughly 20 stories and poems written by Louisa May Alcott under her own…
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News A.S. Byatt, Scholar Who Found Literary Fame With Fiction, Dies at 87
A.S. Byatt, one of the most ambitious writers of her generation, whose dazzling 1990 novel, “Possession,” won the Booker Prize and brought her international fame as a novelist and unapologetic intellectual, has died. She was 87. Her longtime publisher, Chatto & Windus, announced the death in a statement on Friday, saying she had died at…
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