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Greg Stone, An Emerging Novelist at 70

Late-life inspiration leads to pulpy noir novel

by Lydialyle Gibson

Democracy Endangered

American democracy endangered by minority rule

Break Every Chain

How black plaintiffs in the Jim Crow South sought justice

by Max J. Krupnick

Harvard's 2023 Fiscal Year

Harvard sustains a fiscal 2023 operating surplus—and endowment returns turn (modestly) positive.

by John S. Rosenberg

Values and Voting Patterns

Thinking globally versus locally is predictive of political views

Is Pedagogy About Us?

Questioning the intellectual rigor of bringing identity into the classroom

by Isabella Cho

Educational Ascent

Ruth Simmons on her ascent from sharecropper’s daughter to scholar

Back on Top

An Ivy title—dimmed by defeat in the Game

by Dick Friedman

Tom Hyry

What Harvard's special collections librarian has learned from athletics, activism

by Max J. Krupnick

Cambridge 02138

Letters about the Middle East war and campus upheavals, the energy transition, legacies, and more

No Sleepy Coastal Town

Visiting Portsmouth in winter

by Nell Porter-Brown

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections