Search
e-bio
… Parallel Lives, the now classic multibiography by Phyllis (Davidoff) Rose '64, Ph.D. '70, broke new ground in 1983 by examining the lives of five famous English writers and their far less known …
Love Stories
… The film Love Story --the tale of a Harvard boy and a … like mints during Freshman Week, and where a sharp rise in chlamydia cases in the student body last year … are perfectionist and risk averse. These qualities give rise to a romantic landscape that is bimodal: people engage …
The COVID-19 Commencement
… The novel coronavirus had a powerful downsizing effect on … in the formal Commencement rituals—the 369 th iteration of which will be rescheduled. There was no Baccalaureate. … by Harvard Magazine As the leader of the major news enterprise at the heart of contemporary Washington, D.C., the Post …
John S. Rosenberg , Jacob Sweet
Guy Davenport
… “Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker’s attention, … Davenport Jr., Ph.D. ’61, once advised. “This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.” The author, artist, and …
Issue: November-December 2017
The Activist Athlete
… evening , Stemberg men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker sat off to the side in the front row at the Institute of Politics John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, one of the listeners …
Evolution, Synthesized
… Few people would have the credentials, history, background, or brazen confidence … a title as What Evolution Is. But few would deny the right of Ernst Mayr, S.D. '80, Agassiz professor of zoology … controversies--such as which line of dinosaurs gave rise to the modern birds--in order to keep from confusing …
Issue: March-April 2002
How Schizophrenia Resembles the Aging Brain
… how to navigate a route she has routinely driven for years? These two hypothetical scenarios seem unrelated. The … and thirties, while the woman exhibits a classic symptom of dementia, which is more common in the elderly. But … link between the two conditions. Although the initial focus of the study was on the roots of schizophrenia, the group …
Issue: July-August 2024
Reporting on the Environment in Trump’s America
… to academics. Yesterday, members from various corners of the Harvard community gathered at the Kennedy School to … Mooney talk about climate, energy, and the media in the age of Donald Trump. The HKS event was co-sponsored by the …
The Overseers and Optics
… The University has announced that Kenji Yoshino ’91, the Chief Justice Earl Warren professor of constitutional law at New York University School of Law, …
(Club) House Renew
… The construction in the parking lot behind the Harvard Club … Mass Pike, rather than Commonwealth Avenue—is a harbinger of improvements to come. Ordinary though it may seem, the …
Issue: January-February 2015
Reclaiming Childhood
… At the train station in Jaipur, India, a ragtag group of boys … At a site in Gurgaon, half a dozen 20-story buildings rise into the fog. Here, in the birthplace of the overseas …
Issue: November-December 2012
Theatrical Software
… For a while , all seemed to go well at the ribbon-cutting ceremonies for the New College Theatre on … for example, that five U.S. presidents and a justice of the Supreme Court had performed in the building in its … for plays is getting older.” The playwrights pointed to the rise of the multimedia entertainment industry as a major …
Issue: January-February 2008
From the Blog Cave
… much daily writing as hourly writing. And with that level of timeliness, the provisionality of every word is even more pressing—and the risk of error or …
Issue: May-June 2011
Harvard Affiliates’ Books Draw Press Attention
… Reviewers in the New York Times and Boston Globe have taken note of three books with Harvard ties. In Why Trilling Matters … radical in the early 1930s to, finally, éminence grise of literary and liberal anti-Communism, which he …
Beyond Wages in the Workplace
… The terms of employment Harvard offers its lowest-paid and part-time workers would change significantly if the recommendations of a faculty and administrative …