Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
“Man-eating orchids” (March-April). Bernard Witlieb suggested as a possible answer the short story “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid,” by H.G. Wells, in which a man breeds an orchid that overpowers him with its scent and sucks his blood until it is discovered in the act and destroyed by his housekeeper.
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With Loved One, the Harvard grad and Lampoon veteran makes her debut as a novelist.
Winter exhibits at Houghton Library
Composer Julia Riew writes the musicals she needed to see.
Harvard professor Christina Cross debunks the myth of the two-parent Black family.
The building is a microcosm of Harvard’s history—and the history of the United States.
From aphorisms to art heists to democracy’s necessary conditions
