On the cover: Homeria Qaderi, Afghanistan. Photograph by Jim Harrison
Letters
Cambridge 02138
Readers’ views on the Supreme Court, reparations, the humanities, and more
Mum’s the Word
The endowment data drought, and the FAS dean’s downsized report
Advising
President Bacow on conversations with students
Report to Readers
The publisher and editor on changes in the magazine’s design—and its evolving service to readers in its 125th anniversary year
Three Cheers
A salute to a writer and two artists who served readers especially well in 2022
January-February 2023
On the cover: Homeria Qaderi, Afghanistan. Photograph by Jim Harrison
Features
To the Rescue
Harvard’s Scholars at Risk Program helps endangered artists and scholars
Fernando Zóbel-Montojo
Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984
Humanists All
What is lost in the precipitous decline of the arts and humanities
The Happiness Revolutionary
Arthur Brooks moved beyond policy—to something deeper.
RIGHT NOW Harvard research and ideas
Deprivation’s Mark on the Brain
Neglected children’s neurodevelopmental impairments persist into young adulthood.
How Coupons Keep Drugs Costly
Pharmaceutical companies subsidize the cost of their drugs to keep prices high.
Hybrid Work’s Sweet Spot
A business school study finds hybrid workers generate more novel and useful information.
John Harvard's Journal University news
Admissions on Trial
The Supreme Court hears the Harvard and UNC admissions cases.
Karin Öberg
This astrochemist studies the chemical antecedents of life in the universe.
Yesterday’s News
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Farewell
Remembering Henry Rosovsky
Black Ink—and Red
A huge budget surplus, but a down year for the endowment
A Fitter FAS
The dean’s annual report, plus updates on the faculty and its finances
News in Brief
Rankled about rankings, acting on the slavery report, and more
Ups and Downs
Kings of the road, the football team struggled at home—and in The Game.
Montage Books, creative arts, performance and more
Restored to Nature
Landscape architect Mikyoung Kim’s healing arts
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Raising Her Voice
Singer-songwriter Reid Parsons on the irreplaceable instrument
The “Harvard Novel” Enters the Twenty-first Century
On Elif Batuman’s fictions
Harvard Squared What to do in Boston, Cambridge and beyond
Brockton’s Enterprising Restaurateurs
Exploring Cape Verdean and Caribbean cuisine
Jumping for Joy
Trampoline parks—fun for all ages
Bodies in Motion
Inspiring new exhibit at the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
Raising Young Voices
Boston Children's Chorus 2023 season
Relax and Renew
Places to start the new year off right
University People Harvardians far and wide
When Children Fall Ill
“You work in the hope space, and you tend to the grief.”
The Art of Lighting and Sound Design
Theater technicians Finn Bamber and Clay Oxford bring Harvard theater to life.
Home, Harvard, and (Im)permanence
The complicated return to campus post-pandemic
