HKS Eavesdroppers
by The Culture Desk on October 13, 2008 in Culture, Eavesdropper
Snippets of conversation overheard in the HKS hallways. Read more
The Culture Desk Wants to Hear from You!
by The Culture Desk on September 17, 2008 in Culture
Here at the Citizen’s Culture Section, we like you. That’s why we are introducing four new(ish) interactive features, including one called Fashion Confidential. Need tips on the hottest new fashions? Let our own fashion expert Christopher Laconi guide you. Just email the.culture.desk@gmail.com with your questions.
Citizen Picks
by The Culture Desk on September 17, 2008 in Culture
READ: The Age of Bronze series by Eric Shanower
A comic book series detailing (and we mean detailing) the Trojan War. Shanower is already three volumes in and the fighting hasn’t even started yet. The pleasure of these graphic novels lies in the sense of perfectly calculated patience that suffuses them. Shanower knows just how far to push his readers – how long we can spend immersed in the minutia of Greek political maneuvering before the war; how many intertwining plot lines we can follow; how long we will stay with a wordless scene before dialogue appears to lend it context. Read more
