David Deming Announced as Harvard College Dean

Economist, Kirkland House faculty dean to succeed Rakesh Khurana

by Max J. Krupnick

Kerry Washington Named Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year

The Hasty Pudding picks the Scandal actress for its famous pot.

by Laura Levis

Harvard Portrait: Yosvany Terry

A well-traveled Afro-Cuban jazz musician lands at Harvard.

by Sophia Nguyen

Lost in Ideas

Television’s Carlton Cuse on what animates his work

by Lydialyle Gibson

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Hearing History

After “growing up in the archives,” a composer makes forgotten histories heard.

by Lara Pellegrinelli

The Elephant in the Cutting Room

A writer balances structure and spontaneity in her latest novel.

by Aria Thaker

Ubu Abounds

A new cabaret version of Alfred Jarry’s subversive 1896 Ubu Roi

by Nell Porter-Brown

A Grammar of Pain

A new film about American veterans and the struggle to tell their stories through trauma therapy

by Jacqueline Feldman

Chapter and Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words