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The Art of Protest
Before you get to any of the poems in Clint Smith’s new book, Counting Descent —some with titles like “How to Fight,” and “No More Elegies Today,” and “Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class”—you’ll find an epigraph from Ralph Ellison’s interview with the …
Issue: January-February 2017
Harvard Reports Budget Surplus of $77 Million
For the third year in a row, Harvard reported a modest budget surplus, expressing cautious optimism about its future financial performance. Operating revenue for fiscal year 2016 exceeded operating expenses by $77 million, up from last year’s surplus of …
Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block: When Did Labor Law Stop Working?
Why would it take an Amazon worker, employed full time, more than a million years to earn what its CEO, Jeff Bezos now possesses? Why do the richest 400 Americans own more wealth than all African-American households combined? And how are these …
The Fiction of Limbo
M y fiction is constantly in transit,” says novelist and Briggs-Copeland Lecturer Paul Yoon. “If I were to self-analyze it, my guess is that it probably comes from the fact that my history is one of transit, of being in limbo.” For Yoon—whose most recent …
Issue: May-June 2020
Off the Shelf
Stay True, by Hua Hsu, Ph.D. ’08 (Doubleday, $26). A New Yorker staff writer and Vassar associate professor travels back to his youth as a son of Taiwanese immigrants, coming to terms with his culture, and his college friendship with Ken, a perfectly …
Issue: September-October 2022
Probing the Microbial World Within Us
The most versatile chemists in the world live inside us. Trillions of microbes, of several hundred species, an aggregation containing 150 times as many unique genes as a human, make our bodies their home. More biological activity may take place between …
Issue: July-August 2021
Keeping Them Close
The ambulance rolls onto a treeless street in Boston, stopping at a triple-decker across from a defunct bar and an asphalt lot. The medical team greets Crystal, exiting the house with her son in a baby carrier, and helps them inside the tight, cozy space. …
Issue: May-June 2021
Air Pollution’s Systemic Effects
Breathing fine particles suspended in the air is harmful for everyone—and can kill those with cardiovascular or respiratory vulnerabilities, a fact known since the 1990s . Now a study of 95 million Medicare hospitalization claims from 2000 to 2012 links …
Issue: March-April 2020
Brevia
Nameless No More The New College Theatre , a focal point for undergraduate productions—created from 2005 to 2007 by new construction behind, and a renovation of the façade of, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals venue—has become Farkas Hall . Andrew L. Farkas …
Issue: January-February 2012
Eat, Drink, Read
I f you agree with C.S. Lewis that “eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably,” then head straight to the Map Room Tea Lounge, at the Boston Public Library. The amber-toned room with a vintage feel opened last year in the landmark …
Issue: January-February 2020
Creative Exposure
Tension crackled through the audience, which was clumped in a circle in the Frankfurt Conference Center. At the center of the group, Lena Chen ’09, an artist and writer, paced like a cat around a bed, scanning nervous faces for her next victim. A camera …
Issue: January-February 2020
Graduate Students Strike
A t press time, two days before the beginning of winter reading period, the Harvard Graduate Student Union-United Auto Workers (HGSU-UAW) began a strike, with day-long picket lines planned during the first week of December in Harvard Yard and at the …
Issue: January-February 2020
Crimson “Bodice-Rippers”
“Of course their hook was ‘Harvard student writes bodice-ripper,’” says Lauren Willig, A.M. ’03, J.D. ’06. And of course it worked: the publisher’s strategy attracted “all sorts of media attention” to her novel The Secret History of the Pink Carnation. …
Issue: July-August 2015
Conversation on Teaching, Continued: Going Global
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) continues its series of "Conversations@FAS" —focused this semester on teaching and learning. Following a February 11 panel and discussion on activity-based learning , the March 25 session, "Instilling a Global …
Harvard and Life Sciences Partners to Build a Center for Biological Therapies
A Harvard-led consortium of Boston-area healthcare, biotech, and biopharma institutions will open a $50-million nonprofit facility for the development of cell- and gene-based therapies, the University announced today. The hope is that the center will make …