August 20, 2010

September-October 2010 Class Notes and Obituaries

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Published in the September-October 2010 print issue under the headline “The Classes,” in the Alumni section.

A crumbling wall in Harvard Square holds centuries of the city’s story, if you know how to read it.

An architect of Black women’s studies, Barbara Smith introduced the concepts of “identity politics” and “intersectionality.”

Further links to Jeffrey Epstein surface in newly released files.

The growing genre of climate fiction offers a way to process reality—and our anxieties.

Scientists are revisiting an old way of thinking about extinction.

How an abundance of A’s created “the most stressed-out world of all.”