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Explore Harvard community news, alumni, faculty, students, and campus life. Curated stories and perspectives from Harvard Magazine.


Harvard Graduate Workers Begin Strike

In the second walkout in six months, union leaders call for better pay and benefits and a stronger grievance process.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Old Food Reduces Lifespan

New evidence strengthens the theory that aging results from molecular damage.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard women’s basketball has a big weekend

Alumnae weekend helps explain Harvard women’s enduring basketball success.

by David L. Tannenwald

Harvard Magazine puzzle master retires

A longtime contributor hangs up his pencil.

The largest flower in the world is a parasite

Exploring the genetic mysteries of a gigantic parasite

by Jonathan Shaw

Justice Stephen Breyer is profiled by Lincoln Caplan

The optimistic project of Justice Stephen Breyer

by Lincoln Caplan

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

by Sophia Nguyen

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.

by Madeleine Schwartz

Composer Robert Kyr embraces love, peace, and nature.

Composer Robert Kyr embraces love, peace, and nature.

by Lydialyle Gibson

The future of work and the sharing economy

Attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan takes on the app economy.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova