Humanities & Arts
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
Henry Clarke Warren
Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
by David Gauld
The Case for Cultural Appropriation
How humans hybridize their civilizations
Humanists All
What is lost in the precipitous decline of the arts and humanities