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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

Jason Bouldin at work on a painting in his studio

The Art of the Portrait Painter

Jason Bouldin makes the intangible tangible.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Photo of President Donald Trump and Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett

Supreme Court Brinkmanship

Linda Greenhouse on the 2020-2021 Supreme Court—and the changes to come

A smiling woman in a red scarf with brown hair

How Myth and Memoir Intertwine

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta ’01 finds truth in the border between fact and fiction.

by Juliet Isselbacher

Specimen cicadas, a photograph of Harvard museum collections

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Recent books with Harvard connections

Sam Wu conducts an orchestra

Visual Music

The "blurred boundaries" of Sam Wu's compositions

by Nancy Walecki

Photograph of the iconic Monticello, suggesting that Jefferson’s role as an owner of enslaved people needs to be made part of his history

Getting Close to the Past

A powerful public history of slavery in America

by Drew Gilpin Faust

Nabaneeta and Nandana Dev Sen embracing in 2018

A Beloved Bengali Poet in Translation

A new book presents a mother and daughter’s final collaboration

by Lydialyle Gibson

Chapter & Verse: Who wrote...?

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Mark Saltveit writes "Wow" on a piece of glass

The "King of Palindromes"

Mark Saltveit and the art of the palindrome

by Nancy Walecki

Photograph of a mathematician's blackboard, from the book Do Not Erase

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Recent books with Harvard connections