Arts & Culture
David Deming Announced as Harvard College Dean
Economist, Kirkland House faculty dean to succeed Rakesh Khurana
by Max J. Krupnick
Bake at 375
Joanne Chang of Flour Bakery will provide a cake for Harvard's 375th birthday celebration.
Your Take: Dining—In Or Out?
Do we lose something important when we dine out too often? Join our reader discussion and weigh in on your side of the divide.
(Un)common Sense
Historian Sophia Rosenfeld examines the origins of politicians' appeals to "common sense."
Unwhole
Dysfunctional sink with body parts
by Christopher Reed
A Singular Woman’s Biographer
Janny Scott '77 introduces Barack Obama's mother to a wider audience.
by Maya E. Shwayder
The Brain As Art
Carl Schoonover ’06 merges science and aesthetics.
by Sarah Zhang
Ants through the Ages
In two new books, E.O. Wilson and his coauthors introduce pioneer myrmecologist José Celestino Mutis, and the ants that are "the most complex socially of all animals, except for humans."
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Devoted to Debt
Nancy Koehn reviews Louis Hyman's Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink.
by Nancy F. Koehn
Rustic Charms
Conviviality, slow food, and the freshest herbs around
by Nell Porter-Brown