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The “Harvard Novel” Enters the Twenty-first Century
On Elif Batuman’s fictions
by Beth Blum
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
An Exchange of Violence
On the “exit wounds” of America’s gun industry in Mexico
Sarah Karmon to Lead Alumni Association
An HAA veteran will succeed Philip Lovejoy as executive director.
We Remember WWI
Alums’ remarkable memories of World War I, revisited this Veterans Day
The Power of Plants
Exploring the “plant humanities” at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks
Hansjörg Wyss Gives $350 Million to Bioengineering Institute
The philanthropist makes a fourth gift to support basic and translational research.
Three Harvardians Awarded 2022 MacArthur "Genius" Grants
A mathematician, a chemist, and a professor of medicine who studies the health effects of incarceration