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This view of the Fogg Art Museum, taken in mid summer, shows the new structure being inserted in the original Quincy Street façade.

Summer Harvard construction: Fogg Art Museum, Tata Hall, Quincy House

Summer construction—on the Fogg Art Museum, the Business School’s Tata Hall, Old Quincy, and more—renews the campus.

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Ronald Reagan wrote in his presidential diary for September 12, 1988: “Then a briefing for a pleasant interview which took place at 11:30 with Warren Brooks [sic] my favorite Ec. columnist.”

Warren Brookes, "pneumatic" journalist, by Charles G. Kels

Brief life of a “pneumatic” journalist: 1929-1991

by Charles G. Kels

West Bridge has an industrial-cum-farmhouse appeal.

West Bridge in Kendall Square: restaurant review

West Bridge’s French-New England fare is fun.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Pianist Steve Kuhn at Avatar Studios in New York City, during a 2011 recording session for his album <i>Wisteria</i>

"Wisteria" CD by jazz pianist Steve Kuhn shows good things come in trios

For his new CD, Wisteria, jazz pianist Steve Kuhn proves good things come in trios.

by Lara Pellegrinelli

Shawn Douglas of the Wyss Institute develops cancer-fighting nanorobots

Shawn Douglas of the Wyss Institute is developing drug-delivering machines that target designated cells.

Illustration by Pete Ryan

Andrea Louise Campbell reviews The Unheavenly Chorus, on skewed political power

Andrea Louise Campbell reviews The Unheavenly Chorus, by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady.

by Andrea Louise C...

Photograph by James McQuillan/iStock Images

Rutin, a substance found in apples, has powerful anticlotting effects

Rutin, a substance found in apples, could help prevent heart attacks and stroke.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

The Culinary Arts Museum

Six small New England museums worth visiting

Six small New England museums worth the trek

by Nell Porter-Brown

Laurie Krasny Brown in her studio on Martha&rsquo;s Vineyard

The paper art of Laurie Krasny Brown

Laurie Krasny Brown crafts colorful works from an “accessible, flexible, beautiful” material.

by Craig Lambert

Students at work (clockwise from left): Denver Ogaro, Naomi Wills, Jun Sup Lee, undergraduate course assistant Ben Adlam, and Raina Gandhi

Harry Lewis on the Genesis of CS 20, an innovative computer science course

Anatomy of a new course—and a new approach to teaching it

by Harry R. Lewis

Letters on American democracy, voting fraud, and students and cigarettes

Letters on compromise, constitutional revision, voting fraud, American democracy, and students and cigarettes