Features
The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard
In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.
Sexual apartheid in medieval England
Cutting-edge science helps historians push further and more fully into the past.
Lessons from an Unexpected Life
One patient’s struggle with chronic illness highlights the complexities of modern medicine and the healthcare challenge.
Vistas of Perfection
A profile of writer James Agee, at Harvard and beyond
by Adam Kirsch
April Fool Every Day
Comedian Andy Borowitz ’80 has moved from Hollywood success to a multifaceted life as a humorist in New York.
Caroline Farrar Ware
A brief profile of the activist and scholar
Untangling the Brain
Three Harvard scholars trained in chemistry and physics pursue innovative approaches and tools that address problems in neuroscience.
Reopening the Doors to College
The United States must refresh the marriage of excellence and opportunity that characterizes American higher education at its best, argue sociologists Theda Skocpol and Suzanne Mettler.
A Yodel for Help in the Modern World
Playwright Christopher Durang, a “native American absurdist,” writes black comedies that turn painful events into hilarity.
The Developing Child
With a new interdisciplinary center, Harvard turns its focus to the earliest years of life.
Fernando Zóbel de Ayala
A brief profile of the peripatetic painter and philanthropist
by John Seed