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.
In the Eye of the Storm
Regularly the dismal news streams in from Japan. The "lost decade"--dating from the early 1990s, when the country's seemingly...
Christopher Gore
In this spot stood Gore Hall...Built in the year 1838...Named in honor of Christopher Gore...Fellow of the...
Mosquitoes and ticks carry diseases, sometimes with devastating economic effects
Andew Spielman studies diseases carried by blood-sucking insects, and their adaptations to life with their human hosts.
Ups and Downs with Harvard
Although we are all assembled at this gathering because we have been 25 years at Harvard, today I am privately celebrating 53 years of...
The "Five-foot Shelf" Reconsidered
"On or about December, 1910," Virginia Woolf wrote, "human character changed." Woolf was not referring to a specific event...
by Adam Kirsch
The California Meltdown
by William H. Hogan A decade ago, California, along with other states and federal policymakers, began to rethink its approach to the...
William Brooks Cabot
Cabot in a caribou-skin coat. A sampling of his photographs of the Naskapi and their homeland is below. All images © William Brooks...
The Dow of Professional Sports
Traditionally, the best tickets put you nearest the action, but here in the skybox, we look down, as if from an aerie, on the baseball game...
The "Great Good Place"
Harvard University hadn't been my first choice for post-graduate English studies, and I wouldn't have been there if the University of London had...
Human origins driven by technological and cultural revolutions
Ofer Bar-Yosef argues that cultural and technological revolutions have been more important than biological ones during the past 100, 000 years.