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Harpo Marx, South Carolina’s Voting History and Other Letters to the Editor Credit...TBD To the Editor: I was pleased to see Jason Zinoman acknowledge “Harpo Speaks!,” by Harpo Marx, as the gold standard of the comedian memoir (Feb. 21). As a teenager in the early ’60s, I got my hands on the book and found it to be thoroughly entertaining. Particularly enjoyable is the chapter about Harpo’s trip to Russia in the fall of 1933. He ended up spending eight weeks there and put on shows that earned him standing ovations. Posters that announced his appearances, written in Cy...

March 10, 2021 // Posted In Academics, Honors, Research Each week, The New York Times publishes a recommended reading list, featuring books of all shapes, sizes and subjects. This week’s list is quite diverse topic-wise: a romantic comedy, a memoir on race — and a biography written by one of our very own faculty members. Calhoun: American Heretic, written by Baylor history professor Robert Elder, examines the life and thoughts of prominent American politician (and adamant defender of slavery) John C. Calhoun — who has recently resurfaced in national discourse more than a century and a ...

10 New Books We Recommend This Week March 4, 2021 We recommend six novels this week, among them a romantic comedy about frozen yogurt, a look at life in the Airbnb age, and the sequel to Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer-winning “The Sympathizer.” In nonfiction, we like four books that touch on various aspects of race in America, including a memoir by a Black woman who was raised by white parents, an analysis of the harm that racism inflicts on society at large, and two biographies: one about the notorious white supremacist John C. Calhoun, who served as a senator and vice president in the 1...

by Charlotte Allen Print this article John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850), the South Carolina senator who was slavery’s most vociferous defender (he called it a “positive good”) and whose espousal of state “nullification” of federal laws is said to have led directly to Southern secession and the Civil War, is probably today’s most canceled U.S. historical figure. A statue of Calhoun in downtown Charleston, erected by Confederacy sentimentalists during the late 19th century and standing 115 feet tall in its longest-lasting version, was one of the first of the ...

Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee 17 February, 2021, 6:10 pm Sophia Morgan during the sailing competition at the Mulifunua Sheraton Beach Resort in Samoa on Saturday, July 13, 2019. Picture: JONACANI LALAKOBAU/FILE THE chance to eat sushi in Japan has 17-year-old sailor Sophia Morgan all excited as she prepares for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (the Olympics will be held from July 23- August 8) in Japan. Sophia, who is studying and training in Auckland, New Zealand, said she was honoured to be a part of Team Fiji in what would be her first Olympic Games. “When I was ...