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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio smiling beside the pink cover of her novel "Catalina" featuring a jeweled star and eye.

Being Undocumented in America

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s writing aims to challenge assumptions. 

by Nina Pasquini

Mike Schur on the set of The Good Place

Mike Schur on the Good Life

A humorous guide to ethics and philosophy, from the sitcom creator

by Stuart Miller

Phillip Golub playing piano

Experimental Magic

Jazz composer Phillip Golub and the art of making magic

by Nancy Walecki

Photograph from staging of Eurydice, opera by Matthew Aucoin

Music and Language, Reconciled

Matthew Aucoin on opera

by Thomas Forrest Kelly

Portrait of Harvard Law professor and author Randall Kennedy

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Illustration showing U.S. flag pulled different directions by an oligarch and ordinary citizens

A Democracy of Opportunity

Liberals must learn from conservatives how to interpret the Constitution in all its dimensions.

by Lincoln Caplan

Celia Pym at work with a needle and thread

Damage and Repair

Textile artist Celia Pym knits meaning into mended clothes.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Photo of anti-vaccination protest, Los Angeles, October 12, 2021

Thinking Straight

Steven Pinker on rationality

From Punk to the Silver Screen

The ingenious, intuitive film scores of Carter Burwell ’77

by Nicolas Rapold

World War II domestic propaganda posters urge civilian compliance with rationing

War, Misremembered

Elizabeth Samet, of West Point, reinterprets the American understanding of World War II.

Rudy Ruiz

Border Crossing

Author Rudy Ruiz carries on his Mexican-American family’s storytelling tradition.

by Nancy Walecki