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The Men Who Can’t Be Saved
Novelist Ben Purkert’s playfully serious look at masculinity
Honoring Alumni Interviewers
Miller-Hunn Award recipients
New Digs
Claudine Gay’s first day in her presidential office
Tracing the Enslaved to Modern Descendants
A new technique for connecting ancient DNA to living relatives may have implications for institutions with legacies of slavery.
Not-So-Free Parking
New book discusses how free parking spoiled cities for walkers, drivers, and residents
“Joyous Protest Posters”
The Royal Chicano Air Force’s activist art at Houghton Library
Tackling the Dental Care Desert
Harvard alumnae establish a college of dental medicine in rural Missouri.
Addressing Disability
The new Harvard student activism
Saving the News—and Democracy
Should government bolster the free press?
Post-COVID Learning Losses
Children face potentially permanent setbacks
Words with No Freedom
A Houghton Library exhibit explores writing in prison.
Treating Boston’s “Rough Sleepers”
Tracy Kidder and physician Jim O’Connell discuss health care for the homeless.