Arts & Culture
Two Momentous Faculty Retirements
Arthur Kleinman and Harry Lewis depart the classroom.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Sketch Artist
Comedian Colin Jost, from Shouts and Murmurs to Saturday Night Live
by Oset Babür
A Novel Take on Eternal Life
Dara Horn breathes life into classical Jewish sources.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Renegade Tastemakers
A Somerville museum highlights art “so bad, it’s good.”
by Nell Porter-Brown
Plans for Allston ArtLab Move Forward
Harvard presented design details for the new Allston project at a city meeting this week.
by Sophia Nguyen
Poet Frank Bidart Wins the National Book Award
Five other Harvardians were also honored by the National Book Foundation.
by Sophia Nguyen
A New Cast for the Semitic Museum
A replica of the Dream Stele, part of Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian’s efforts to revitalize the museum
by Sophia Nguyen
A Transformative Gift of Dutch Drawings
George Abrams ’54, J.D. ’57, donates his collection to the Harvard Art Museums.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Oenophile Par Excellence
Anne Fadiman ’74 recalls her father, Clifton, in an excerpt from The Wine Lover’s Daughter
Found in Translation
Maureen Freely ’74, longtime translator of Orhan Pamuk, shares the nuances of bringing a text from one language to another.
by Oset Babür
“Kingmaker” to Gatekeeper
Stephanie Burt ’94 is the kind of poetry critic who provokes anger in other poetry critics.
by Tara Wanda Merrigan