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Transform Your Space for Spring

Brighten and lighten

by Kara Baskin

Merkel to speak at Commencement, and other news

Merkel at Commencement, University Professor Faust, Arts First honorand Tracy K. Smith, and more University news

Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

“Binstead’s Safari” and the continuing appeal of novelist Rachel Ingalls

The continuing appeal of novelist Rachel Ingalls

by Olivia Munk

Disadvantaged students in elite colleges

Anthony Jack’s new book on the “doubly disadvantaged”

by John S. Rosenberg

Wage stagnation: economists look to new explanations

Economists look to new explanations for wage stagnation.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Vietnamese cuisine in Boston

Boston-area Vietnamese cuisine

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard Commencement exercises 2019

Guidelines for this year’s May gala

“Veep” showrunner David Mandel: a profile

Showrunner David Mandel guides the final season of Veep—and finds himself politicized.

by S.I. Rosenbaum

When opioids are needed

A former pain patient warns against overcorrection in the rush to reduce opioid prescriptions.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard Portrait: Amy Wagers

The skydiving Forst Family professor studies the pathophysiology of aging.

by Oset Babür

Cambridge 02138 Letters from our readers

Letters on care after the ICU, artificial intelligence, belonging, and more