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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
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.
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...
Neil L. Rudenstine president Harvard
Only 10 years ago, at the end of the 1990-1991 academic year, Harvard and the higher-education universe were very far from their current robust...
A Life with Lycaenids
At the first lab she attended in a course on terrestrial arthropods, Naomi Pierce was expected to dissect a cockroach. Not the familiar kind we...
Randall Thompson
To many music lovers, the name Randall Thompson '20 brings first to mind the lofty sounds of his most famous anthem, based on the single word...
Boogie-Woogie
It's a small exhibition, but a bit of a blockbuster. "Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings" focuses on a group of 17 paintings that...