Arts & Culture
Alumni Cheer on Harvard
At Alumni Day, ringing endorsements of Harvard’s fight
by Max J. Krupnick
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The Windmill Movie
Filmmaker Alexander Olch has made an biographical documentary based on footage left behind by his mentor, Richard Rogers.
by Craig Lambert
The Bible and the Almanac
How Pete Seeger got his start: an excerpt from Alec Wilkinson's new biography, The Protest Singer
Ancestral Influences
View images of Phillip Charette's masks alongside masks from the Smithsonian Institution holdings that inspired him.
Arts Administration in Challenging Times
Michael M. Kaiser, known for steering the Kennedy Center and other troubled arts organizations back to health, shares his secrets with a Harvard audience.
Laughing at Slavery
In Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery, Glenda Carpio describes how slavery has provided a background and a source of raw material for African-American humor.
by Craig Lambert
The Alcotts, Père and Fille
John Matteson, who left the law to pursue literature, won a Pulitzer Prize for Eden’s Outcasts, his double biography of Bronson and Louisa May Alcott.
by Julia Wallace
From Literature to the Lab
In this excerpt from his new book, The Art and Politics of Science, Nobel laureate Harold Varmus reflects on his switch from graduate work in English to medical school.
On Judicial Interpretation
Paul M. Barrett reviews The Invisible Constitution, by Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe.
by Paul M. Barrett
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