Arts & Culture
Trump Administration Expands Harvard Student Visa Vetting
State Department tells officials to screen social media, flag private accounts as suspicious.
by Nina Pasquini
Harvard Anthropologist's Book Inspires Oscar-Nominated Film
Kimberly Theidon's book on female victims of Peruvian violence was the basis for The Milk of Sorrow, nominated for best foreign-language film.
Nachos with Your Bach?
New Yorker music critic Alex Ross ’90 argues for presenting classical music in unorthodox settings.
Bluegrass for the Yard
The Barker Center hosts a February 6 symposium on bluegrass music, with an evening performance by Grammy-winning artists.
Harvard Headlines: Fiction by E.O. Wilson, David Cutler on Healthcare, and More
Our roundup also includes a New Yorker profile of U.S. education secretary Arne Duncan and a review of the work of architect Jeanne Gang, both Harvard graduates.
Songwriter-Scholar-Activist Gets His Own Radio Show
Derrick Ashong ’97 hosts a new show on Oprah Radio.
Following the Monuments Men
See the routes four Harvard-affiliated Monuments Men followed as they traveled through Europe rescuing looted art from the Nazis.
Atul Gawande's New Book, Reviewed
The Checklist Manifesto explores checklists as a tool for preventing error in medicine, aviation, and elsewhere.
War and Peace
A stained-glass window in Harvard's Memorial Hall
by Christopher Reed
The Art Army
Harvard’s Monuments Men at war
Woolf Hunters
Rare-book dealers Jon and Margaret Richardson are fans of the Bloomsbury Group.
by Spencer Lee Lenfield