Humanities & Arts
Shakespeare’s Uncanny Presence
Marjorie Garber explores the bard’s influence on the Bloomsbury Group.
How Revolutions Happen
Robert Darnton on the origins of the French Revolutionary temperament
The GOP’s Return to Ideas?
Proposing a new Republican platform
by Max J. Krupnick
How Not to Write about Minorities
Viet Thanh Nguyen urges moving beyond the “sob story.”
by Max J. Krupnick
#MeToo Meets Mt. Olympus
A new play at the A.R.T. provides a modern take on ancient mythologies
by Max J. Krupnick
Bringing Art to Life
Cecilia Zhou’s approach to makeup, protest, and science
by Max J. Krupnick
Marla Frederick Named Dean of Harvard Divinity School
The scholar of the African American religious experience will become dean January 1.
by Jonathan Shaw
Speaking Volumes
Glimpsing Harvard’s East Asian language materials collection
by Nell Porter Brown
Tracing the Enslaved to Modern Descendants
A new technique for connecting ancient DNA to living relatives may have implications for institutions with legacies of slavery.
by Jonathan Shaw
Among the Brokenhearted
The ministry of Matthew Ichihashi Potts
by Nancy Walecki
Hume, Heaney, Harvard—and Peace in Northern Ireland
In life and literature, living “dangerously out between” opposing factions while seeking common ground
by Marilynn Richtarik