Hard-boiled: Classics of American Crime Fiction

Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, Nick Charles: these are our “hard-boiled” American detectives — heavy-drinking, no-nonsense loners with a soft spot for dames. Raymond Chandler criticized British murder mysteries for lack of realism, praising Dashiell Hammett for “giving murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse.”  [...]

Spring and Summer 2010 list of courses

Here are the upcoming Humanities, Arts, and Sciences course offerings for Spring and Summer 2010, listed by start month. The courses will be listed on the Graham School website February 25, 2010. Here is the list in pdf format. March Advanced Colloquial Arabic Al-Ghazali: The Alchemy of Islamic Thought American Masters Asian Classics: The China [...]

Spinning Caesar’s murder

The murder of Julius Caesar was a messy business. As with all assassinations, it was easier for the conspirators to plan the first blow than to predict what would happen next – never mind to have an exit strategy in reserve, should things go wrong. Click here to read more of Mary Beard’s review of [...]

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