Arts & Culture
Alumni Cheer on Harvard
At Alumni Day, ringing endorsements of Harvard’s fight
by Max J. Krupnick
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.
Intellectual Entrepreneurs
Three Harvard Advocate alumni helped found a highbrow literary periodical.
Strokes in Glass
Ellen Kennelly ’85 has created a new glass sculpture for Weld Boathouse.
by Craig Lambert
Anatomy as Entertainment
An excerpt from A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience, by Charles Gross ’57