Arts & Culture
The Picture of Freedom
A Boston Athenaeum exhibit explores an abolitionist with Harvard ties.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Shakespeare’s Uncanny Presence
Marjorie Garber explores the bard’s influence on the Bloomsbury Group.
Inclusive Design, Incisive Art
Amy Yoshitsu’s vision for change
by Claire Zulkey
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
How Revolutions Happen
Robert Darnton on the origins of the French Revolutionary temperament
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Brief life of a pioneering economist: 1915-2012
by Jennifer Burns
You Are What (Your Microbes) Eat
Diet, cooking, and the human microbiome
by Veronique Greenwood
News in Brief
New Divinity and Engineering and Applied Sciences deans, Kennedy School and Art Museums departures, and more
#MeToo Meets Mt. Olympus
A new play at the A.R.T. provides a modern take on ancient mythologies
by Max J. Krupnick
Sackler—and Beyond
The “Objects of Addiction” exhibit explores Harvard’s opium ties.
by Max J. Krupnick
Martha Tedeschi to Step Down from Harvard Art Museums
Director, appointed in 2016, plans to retire in June 2024.
by John S. Rosenberg