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Jimmy Tingle holding a microphone and performing on stage

Jimmy Tingle

Photograph courtesy of Jimmy Tingle

Arts

Jimmy Tingle’s political humor in a polarized era

4.6.23

An image of the covers for Stay True and Then the War, overlaid with a gold Pulitzer Prize medal

Hua Hsu's memoir Stay True and Carl Phillips's Then the War were among this year's Pulitzer winners.

Pulitzer prize medal in public domain; montage by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine

Carl Phillips and Hua Hsu honored in poetry and memoir

5.8.23

Photograph of Sarah Kariko ’90 operating a letterpress at the Bow & Arrow Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Sarah Kariko ’90 operates a letterpress at the Bow & Arrow Press.

Photograph by Craig Lambert

The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.

4.21.23

Vladimir Lenin

Through warlike economic mobilization, Vladimir Lenin’s Soviet “Project-State” sought to remake institutions, cultures, psychology, end even desires.

Photograph from wikipedia/in the public domain

Interpreting politics through the rise of technocracy, morality, and the “web of capital”

May-June 2023

V.V. Ganeshananthan

V.V. Ganeshananthan

Photograph by Sophia Mayrhofer

Novelist V.V. Ganeshananthan on writing diasporic fiction

May-June 2023

Vintage Harvard Square: a view in 1960

Vintage Harvard Square: a view in 1960, when people dressed formally and there was no MBTA station

Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Archives

In love with Harvard Square, the invention of ICUs, Seamus Heaney

May-June 2023

Susan Rubin Suleiman with her parents in 1949; her mother is wearing the silver pin discussed in the book excerpt.

Susan Rubin Suleiman with her parents in 1949; her mother is wearing the silver pin.

Photograph courtesy of Susan Rubin Suleiman

Susan Rubin Suleiman’s memoir of a life in Nazi Hungary—and after

May-June 2023

Nancy Hopkins (center) stands with Salvador Luria (left) and David Baltimore at the MIT Cancer Center in the 1980s.

Photograph courtesy of MIT Museum

New book on Nancy Hopkins speaks to women's fight for equality then—and their fight now

3.16.23

Republican or Early Imperial Roman relief of the Greek playwright Menander, 100 BCE-early first century CE

Republican or Early Imperial Roman relief of the Greek playwright Menander, 100 BCE-early first century CE

Photograph from the Princeton University Art Museum/In the Public Domain

How humans hybridize their civilizations

March-April 2023