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The Year a Beat Poet Squatted at Harvard

In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.

by Constantine Archimedes Valhouli

Albert Bickmore

Brief life of a museum impresario: 1839-1914

by Victoria Cain

Seriously Funny

Ian Frazier combines an historian's discipline with an original comic mind...

by Craig Lambert

Art historian Yukio Lippit in the Japanese merchant's house at the Boston Children's Museum.

Works and Woods

Architecture and ecology in Japan...

by Paul Gleason

Unequal America

Causes and consequences of the wide—and growing—gap between rich and poor

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Hubble space telescope photographs explained

The cosmic drama, as seen from a vantage in space: Harvard astronomers highlight important images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope

by Jonathan Shaw , Jennifer Carling

Maxim Gorky

Brief life of a great enigma, the Russian author and political propagandist born Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov: 1868-1936...

by Donald Fanger

Mycobacteria form greasy, fatty-looking colonies. Their thick lipid coatings may play a role in allowing them to survive an onslught of antibiotics.

Where Does Tuberculosis Hide?

The fight against an ancient scourge shifts to new battlegrounds...

by Jonathan Shaw

Saint Fiacre

Brief life of the gardener saint: 600-670

by Richard Marius

Courtesy of Wei Yang, Harvard University.

Light Makes a Comeback

Today’s high-powered light microscopes bear little resemblance to the iconic instruments of high-school biology labs. This revolution...

The main house at Dumbarton Oaks.

Home of the Humanities

At a serene Harvard outpost, scholars find fertile ground for Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and landscape studies...

by Elizabeth Gudrais