Features
The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard
In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.
Empty Nets
Can marine molecular genetics help form a strategy for restocking the damaged seas? A dispatch from Bali
Justin Kaplan, editor of Bartlett's “Familiar Quotations," reveals his m.o.
Hunting quintessential quotations with the editor of Barlett's
The Storyteller
A professor's close study of Harvard undergraduates yields rich lessons about what makes college succeed - and how students can make it work for them
Quantum Art
Chemist, physisist, and artist Eric Heller harnesses the computer to render stunning images of minute natural phenomena
Innocent Merriment
The theatre Collection challenging lyrics use language to give readers the experience of the poem
John Jay Chapman
Brief life of a neglected critic: 1862-1933
Whither Harvard?
A new president must rethink the University's academic structure...
Antioch Revealed
Treasures from an ancient city dazzle in a new exhibit
"An Instrument of Good Will"
At 75, the Harvard College Fund spins a web of friendships.
The World's Poor
A Harvard Magazine Roundtable