Arts & Culture
Harvard President Responds to Secretary of Education
Alan Garber outlines steps University has taken, emphasizes compliance with the law.
by Jonathan Shaw
Sleuths in Love
Screenwriter turned novelist Eric Lerner ’71 finds his voice...
by Craig Lambert
A Scatter of Acorns
Excerpt from Nicholas Dawidoff ’85 memoir The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball...
Underground Party
Commuters making their way through the underground corridors of the sprawling Times Square subway station in Manhattan now have some...
Off the Shelf
Yeltsin: A Life, by Timothy J. Colton, Feldberg professor of government and Russian studies (Basic Books, $35). A monumental biography of the...
Freeing Speech
Anthony Lewis’s Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment offers a lucid and engaging overview of American...
Solar Sculptor
Michael Kapetan’s sundials don’t do “clock time”...
by Cara Feinberg
Chapter & Verse
Michael Comenetz asks if the phrase “Galloping Gordon,” sometimes applied to British prime minister Gordon Brown, originated with...
This Blessed Plot, This Earth, This Realm, This Harvard~Part Three
Harvard-specific adaptation of a Shakespearean excerpt by playwright Alison Carey ’82...
John Chervinsky
Photograph by Stu Rosner John Chervinsky Like many people, John Chervinsky takes his work home. But what this lab engineer takes home may one...
Identity Seeker
Sergio Troncoso ’83 showed up in Cambridge in 1979 with a suitcase full of T-shirts brought from his hometown on the Texas-Mexico border...
by Liz Goodwin