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Protesters march holding signs in a public square with buildings and trees in the background.

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

Andrew L. Cabot

Explore Handcrafted Ipswich Rum, Cape Cod's Farms, and B.Good's Real Fast Food

Alumni promote the local origins of edible goods

by Nell Porter-Brown

First discovered in the 1880s, the Midway-Sunset oil field near Taft, California, remains in production today.

HKS Professor Joseph Aldy examines the true costs of fossil fuel subsidies.

Joseph Aldy examines the true costs of fossil fuel subsidies.

by Laura Levis

Aeneas, future founder of Rome, rouses the sympathies of Dido, queen of Carthage, with the tale of the destruction of his home city, Troy.

Virgil Encyclopedia in English

Two Harvard classics professors create the first Virgil Encyclopedia in English.

by Erin O’Donnell

illustration of praising books

Adam Kirsch reviews Lawrence Buell on the Great American Novel

A literary critic on the Great American Novel

by Adam Kirsch

Derek Reist's painting <i>Downtown Gold</i>

Cityscapes by Derek Reist feature sunlight and shadow

Sunlight and shadow star in Derek Reist’s urban landscapes.

by Steve Potter

The Atlantic’s Scott Stossel on anxiety

Scott Stossel ’91 probes anxiety in a personal, revealing, and funny book about a serious subject.

Poet and physician Rafael Campo relaxes at home with a book.

Alterrnative Medicine, poetry book by physician Rafael Campo

Rafael Campo, M.D., straddles medicine and metonymy.

by Stephen Burt

Seedpods of <i>Magnolia x soulangeana</i> (dispersed by animals)

Seedpod photographs by Anna Laurent

Little packages of DNA that explode with beauty

by Craig Lambert

Citizen science draws amateurs into scientific research

In the Internet era, research moves from professionals’ labs to amateurs’ homes.

by Katherine Xue

While being evicted from her Milwaukee apartment, Danielle Shaw (left) and relatives wait until the movers carrying down her refrigerator and stove are no longer blocking the stairwell.

Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond on evictions

Sociologist Matthew Desmond studies eviction and the lives of America’s poor.

by Elizabeth Gudrais