Arts & Culture
Harvard Ramps Up Fundraising as Research Cuts Deepen
This week in the battle between Harvard and the Trump administration
by Nina Pasquini
Y Is for “Yell”
A sampler from the Harvard University Library's online collection Reading: Harvard Views of Readers, Readership, and Reading History.
by Christopher Reed
A Renaissance for Medieval Classics
A new series from Harvard University Press reintroduces works that mattered in the Middle Ages. With excerpts from two of the works.
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
William James: Summers and Semesters
A conference and an exhibition at Houghton Library showcase the legacy of the pioneering psychologist and philosopher.
Gut Renovation
Harvard renews an older building to create new labs in Cambridge for stem-cell research.
“A Nation Arguing with Its Conscience”
Deliberative democracy, philosophical pragmatism, and Barack Obama's conception of American governance
by James T. Kloppenberg
A Lens on History
Photographer Susan Meiselas’s quest to understand via images. With audio from the interview.
Alice Paul
Brief life of a pioneering suffragist: 1885-1977
by Mary Walton
Reliably Enterprising
Vee Vee in Jamaica Plain turns out innovative food that is fresh, healthy, delicious, and modestly priced.
by Nell Porter-Brown
Local Bounty
A cookbook writer and anthropologist, apple ice wine makers, and a fermentation aficionado celebrate New England food.
by Nell Porter-Brown
Funniest Pages
Rick Meyerowitz’s Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead is a compendium of the best pieces from the National Lampoon.
by Craig Lambert