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Readers comment on privacy, gender agendas, the Horsehead Nebula, and more.
Arts First
President Faust on Crimson creativity and “constructive imagination”
Speaking Strategically
A comment on how institutions present, and understand, themselves
86 Across
A longtime contributor hangs up his pencil.
March-April 2017

Susan Cain foments the "Quiet Revolution."
Susan Cain foments the “Quiet Revolution.”
Harvard Houghton Library 75th anniversary exhibition
A humanistic “masterclass” for Houghton Library's seventy-fifth anniversary
Brief life of Henry Knowles Beecher, anesthetist and late-blooming ethicist
Brief life of a late-blooming ethicist: 1904-1976
The largest flower in the world is a parasite
Exploring the genetic mysteries of a gigantic parasite
Justice Stephen Breyer is profiled by Lincoln Caplan
The optimistic project of Justice Stephen Breyer
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Nutrition for health, environment, and society
Gidon Eshel explains the environmental, social, and political effects of food choices.
A reason why cancer is less common in women
Scientists think they may have an answer.
Modeling suicide risk
Traditional methods of preventing suicide have been ineffective, says psychologist Matthew Nock.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Basketball teams pursue Ivy League tournament titles
Basketball teams pursue Ivy League tournament titles.
Remaking Harvard Management Company
New leadership begins sweeping change, attempting to improve persistent underperformance.
Challenges to endowments and philanthropy
On the agenda: challenges to endowments and philanthropy
Rethinking policy on Harvard social clubs
Broadening the debate on Harvard’s single-gender social organizations
Harvard faculty slow growth and gradual diversification
In the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, slow growth and changing demographics
Profile of historian Elizabeth Hinton
A scholar of race, justice, and public policy
Harvard University Press director retiring and more
A change at Harvard University Press, and more
Headlines from Harvard history
A morgue for movies, and more from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
The Undergraduate on Harvard political polarization
The Undergraduate considers campus debate and action in a polarized era.
Harvard Law dean to depart and other news briefs
The Law School dean steps down, graduate-student union balloting, divestment, and more
profile of Harvard water polo coach Ted Minnis
Ted Minnis makes Harvard an East Coast power in a West Coast sport.
Winter sports in brief
Hockey, squash, swimming and diving: winter sports in brief
Montage Books, creative arts, performance, and more
Documentarian Kent Garrett reflects on how “Black Journal” broke down barriers
How Black Journal raised the country's consciousness, and opened Kent Garrett's eyes to television's potential
A new biography of Louis Kahn
Probing the primal drives of a landmark architect
Reality fiction: the delightful fullness of Elif Batuman's “The Idiot”
Elif Batuman’s novel The Idiot reflects on her Harvard freshman year.
Composer Robert Kyr embraces love, peace, and nature.
Composer Robert Kyr embraces love, peace, and nature.
Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Wordsworth seen anew and other recent books
Wordsworth seen anew, and other recent books
Adam Kirsch on Megan Marshall’s Elizabeth Bishop biography
Adam Kirsch reviews Megan Marshall’s biography of poet Elizabeth Bishop.
Harvard SquaredWhat to do in Boston, Cambridge, and beyond
New Hampshire's Star Island offers wild beauty and meaningful retreats.
Wild beauty and meaningful retreats on New Hampshire’s Star Island
Peabody Essex Museum's wearable-art exhibit
Fashion collides with high art at the Peabody Essex Museum.
Public Health Museum in Tewksbury, Massachusetts
Artifacts used to fight American epidemics, at the Public Health Museum in Massachusetts
Vegetarian restaurants in Greater Boston
Expanding vegetarian dining options in Greater Boston
Almuni Harvardians far and wide
Labor Litigator
Attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan takes on the app economy.
Harvard’s 366th Commencement Exercises
Guidelines for the gala
Harvard Overseer and HAA Director Candidates
The 2017 slates
HAA Clubs and SIGs Awards
Harvard celebrates its volunteer alumni leaders.

Coeducating a Harvard Club and more
Coeducating the Harvard Club of New York, Robert McNamara redux, and a professor at home on the range