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.
Medicine by Model
It's a troubling area, the economics of saving lives. Take cervical cancer, for example. In the United States we have spent enormous sums for...
Tough Love
Editor's Note: Nicholas Dawidoff '85 has just published The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World, a richly detailed...
Globalization for Whom?
Globalization has brought little but good news to those with the products, skills, and resources to market worldwide. But does it also work for...
The Future of War and the American Military
The people who run the American military have to be futurists, whether they want to be or not. The process of developing and building new...
Murasaki Shikibu
The Japanese woman who wrote the extraordinary Tale of Genji a thousand years ago is known only by a nickname. Her given name went unrecorded...
Managing with Markov
It has attracted less attention, perhaps, than searches for Big Foot or a cure for the common cold, but the quest for the optimal baseball...
Brainy Women
The human brain rests in cupped hands as easily as a cantaloupe. It is softer and spongier to the touch, of course, and its surface is more...
Masters of Metal
"Glory and prosperity" are the first words of a benediction often inscribed on medieval Islamic metalwork, and any civilization that...
Faculty Diversity
When alumni, after a long absence, stroll through Harvard Yard or return to any other university campus, two questions usually come to mind:...
Spring Sampler
Photographs by Jim Harrison unless otherwise indicated. Objects © President and Fellows of Harvard College Here begins an excursion...