Arts & Culture
New Overseers and HAA Directors Announced
Alumni showed increased interest in this year’s elections.
by Nell Porter-Brown
“Hope to Achieve Beauty”: A Class Day Talk at the Graduate School of Design
Architect Denise Scott Brown recommends hitchhiking and the brave results that can emerge from tackling hard problems.
“Panic in the Year Zero”
A poem by D.A. Powell, from the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises. [audio]
“Panic” and “Friendship” at Phi Beta Kappa
Historian Natalie Zemon Davis speaks on "The Possibilities of Friendship." Also featuring poet D.A. Powell with a vivid new work. [video/audio]
Satirist Borowitz on New PBS Show
Humorist Andy Borowitz ’80 will do a comedy segment each week on a new PBS news program, Need to Know.
Highbrow Lingerie
Fashion designer Laura Mehlinger draws on inspirations ranging from Vladimer Nabokow to Prince.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Chapter and Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Gutenberg 2.0
Harvard’s libraries deal with disruptive change.
by Jonathan Shaw
Martian Grass
What lead, chromium, and oxygen can do
by Christopher Reed
New Ancient Sculpture
Sculptor James Dinerstein’s works in concrete and bronze fuse ancient forms with modern abstraction.
by Paul Gleason