William Wordsworth

Album review: John Mayer's 'Born and Raised'

2012-05-22 16:36:57

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John Williams and Steven Spielberg mark 40 years of collaboration

2012-01-08 00:00:00

The quietest room in Hollywood may be the office where John Williams composes. In a bungalow on the Universal Studios lot, steps from the production company of his most frequent collaborator, director Steven Spielberg, Williams works alone at a 90-year-...

Artist Steve Roden blends old photos, recordings on new CD

2011-07-31 00:00:00

The genesis of "... i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces," a new book of vintage photographs with musical accompaniment, came simply, during one of artist Steve Roden's regular visits to the flea market. "This is how it always happens —...

Books: Faces to watch in 2010

2009-12-27 00:00:00

REBECCA SKLOOT SCIENCE JOURNALIST When Rebecca Skloot was a high school student, she learned about HeLa cells, the first human cells to be successfully reproduced in a lab. They'd become the standard for medical research, classrooms, even in space --...

Harvard's history of reading

2010-07-09 16:35:16

Live review: Joanna Newsom at Orpheum Theatre

2010-08-01 21:35:34

'The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth' by Frances Wilson

2009-03-01 00:00:00

The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth A Life Frances Wilson Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 318 pp., $30 Literature is supposed to be a serious, solitary profession. Then why were William Wordsworth, his sister Dorothy and their best friend Samuel Coleridge...

The Lure of the Luxurious Lakes

2001-10-14 00:00:00

A 10-piece band with a harp and an accordion cranked out a mambo from a stage in the overflowing plaza. A tall man with blue-black hair beckoned my wife over to a long table. "Vino rosso?" he asked, and he poured Bobbie two glasses of a robust red wine....

England's rugged coast a favorite of the British

2003-07-06 00:00:00

Exmoor is one of England's smallest national parks, but it packs a grand variety of natural attractions within its borders: magnificent coastal bluffs, lush woodland, tumbling streams. Despite all this wonderful countryside, don't expect to meet many...

Celebrating 12 in 2012

2011-12-30 09:56:00

In an anecdote that sticks to the memory like an overdone cookie on an undergreased cookie sheet — those 2011 holiday baking mishaps still rankle — an American visiting the Sorbonne is accosted by a French student. "You Americans!" the...

Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Cambridge, England

2011-08-26 03:51:00

Why men are in trouble

2011-10-03 21:00:00

For the first time in history, women are better educated, more ambitious and arguably more successful than men. Now, society has rightly celebrated the ascension of one sex. We said, "You go girl," and they went. We celebrate the ascension of women but...

on late-night TV. The movie's title comes from a line in Wordsworth's poem. Yet upon rereading it, the poem doesn't leave you in a sour mood at romances that fizzle and die.

2011-12-30 10:39:25

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