Arts & Culture
Harvard Allocating Additional $250 Million to Research
University increasing its research funding by 50 percent after grant revocations
by Max J. Krupnick
James Baldwin’s America, in Photos
A fresh look at the writer’s work and influences
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
A Lawyer for Art
Solving legal challenges at MoMA
by Sanya Sagar
Painter, Anew
Nell Painter reflects on leaving the ivory tower for art school at age 64.
by Olivia Schwob
“I Got Race”
A “first-gen” American explores race and assimilation in the United States.
“Little Shards of Dissonance”
An oratorio adapted from Langston Hughes
by Sophia Nguyen
True Lies
Jill Lepore excavates the history of America, down to its bedrock values.
by Casey N. Cep
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Shifting Sands
Family snapshots of living off the land, in the Kalahari
by Sophia Nguyen
Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race
Watch human-powered machines prevail—or not—in Lowell.
by Nell Porter-Brown
Slightly Supernatural
In Laura van den Berg’s fiction, the deeply strange is ordinary.
by Lydialyle Gibson