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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

Republican or Early Imperial Roman relief of the Greek playwright Menander, 100 BCE-early first century CE

The Case for Cultural Appropriation

How humans hybridize their civilizations

by Adam Kirsch

Restored to Nature

Landscape architect Mikyoung Kim’s healing arts

by Lydialyle Gibson

Conflicting cultures in Africa: “The Missionary burns the House of a Witch,” ca. 1750, from the book, Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola

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Recent books with Harvard connections

Reid Parsons stands in a greenhouse amid plants

Raising Her Voice

Singer-songwriter Reid Parsons on the irreplaceable instrument

by Lydialyle Gibson

Elif Batuman

The “Harvard Novel” Enters the Twenty-first Century

On Elif Batuman’s fictions

by Beth Blum

A collection of abstract geometric paintings hang above a white couch

Straight Lines and Odd Angles

Painter Judith Seligson’s creative juxtapositions

by Lydialyle Gibson

John Singer Sargent self-portrait, 1892

Sargent’s Other Sides

A revealing new biography of John Singer Sargent

Celeste Ng

Celeste Ng debuts new novel

“Our Missing Hearts” embodies the author’s hope that storytelling can be an agent of change.

by Nancy Walecki

Late-winter thunderstorm atop snow in New England, February 2014

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Recent books with Harvard connections

Portrait of Kapwani Kiwanga

The Nature of Archives

Installation artist Kapwani Kiwanga on power, resistance, and plants

by Salomé Gómez-Upegui