Montage
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
The World-Wise JFK
An unusual senior thesis
“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