Features

Caricature of a young man in front of red doors, wearing a green striped sweater.

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

Photograph of a California two-spot octopus

Inner Senses

Nicholas Bellono probes the biological basis of animal adaptations and behaviors.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard Business School campus at its unveiling in 1927

The Shaping of Modern Business

On the history and potential of values-driven enterprises

by Geoffrey Jones

Along a city street, mural on a concrete wall shows two men shaking hands, with a large pair of watchful eyes in the background.

To the Rescue

Harvard’s Scholars at Risk Program helps endangered artists and scholars

by Lydialyle Gibson

Fernando Zóbel-Montojo

Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984

by Felipe Pereda

Illustration of book like a sinking ship, emblematic of problems in the humanities

Humanists All

What is lost in the precipitous decline of the arts and humanities

by James Engell

Arthur Brooks stands behind a chair in his office, smiling

The Happiness Revolutionary

Arthur Brooks moved beyond policy—to something deeper.

by Nancy Walecki

Allison Feaster wearing a green Celtics shirt in front of team championship banners

The Irresistible Allison Feaster

A basketball star's journey from the Harvard hardwood to the Celtics front office

by Lydialyle Gibson

George Reisner, 1924

George Reisner

Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942

by Peter Der Manuelian

The Off-Kilter Economy

Reckoning with inflation and its remedies

by Jonathan Shaw

Official portrait of Justice Elena Kagan

Justice Elena Kagan, in Dissent

Ebbing trust in the Supreme Court, and what to do about it  

by Lincoln Caplan