Montage

On the Margins

Filmmaker John Armstrong’s “outdoor adventures” find the human spirit.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Grinding Out Lawyers—by Grinding Down Students

The making of the modern Harvard Law School

by Lincoln Caplan

“We’re All Animals”

Shelby Meyerhoff’s liminal, liberating body painting

by Lydialyle Gibson

“Magical Digressions”

TV writer and producer Jeff Schaffer on how to be funny

by Stuart Miller

Finding Other Streets

Photographer Mark Erickson on the Vietnam he never knew

by Dan Kelly

“To Break Our Own Rules”

Poet-critic Dan Chiasson and The Math Campers

by Lydialyle Gibson

In a Farmer’s Long Beard

Miriam Udel’s passion for children and Yiddish children’s literature

Family History

A German American scholar is unsettled by an ancestor’s secret.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections