Features

Celebrating Integrity

Harvard passes a test of its values, yet challenges loom.

by Jonathan Shaw

Medicine in the Middle of Nowhere

Stuart Harris and the austere practice of wilderness physicians

by Lydialyle Gibson

Criminal Injustice

Alec Karakatsanis puts “human caging” and “wealth-based detention” in America on trial.

by Michael Zuckerman

The Portraitist

Elsa Dorfman, BI ’73, looks back on her photography.

by Sophia Nguyen

Carl Thorne-Thomsen

Brief life of a man of principle: 1946-1967

by Bonnie Docherty

Seeing the the Invisible World of Microbes

On Earth, microbes run the show.

by Jonathan Shaw

Poetry, Voiced

In the Woodberry Poetry Room, a landmark audio collection waits to be heard.

by Sophia Nguyen

Blanche Ames

Brief life of an intrepid botanical illustrator: 1878-1969

by Laura J. Snyder

Probing Psychoses

Harvard geneticists seek the biological basis for schizophrenia.

by Courtney Humphries

An Educated Core

Yale-NUS, Nicholas Lemann, and Minerva remodel liberal arts for the twenty-first century.

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard’s Class Gap

The chasm between elite academia and working-class Americans—and how to bridge it

by Richard D. Kahl...