Students & Alumni
Features on student life and alumni journeys, capturing the spirit, impact, and diversity of the Harvard community.
Harvard Retains Winthrop Name
Committee undecided on whether owning slaves merits denaming
by Max J. Krupnick
Stories for Change
Nancy Churnin’s picture-book biographies for children span time and space.
by Sanya Sagar
A Wintry Jaunt to Newport, Rhode Island
Visiting Newport, Rhode Island, during the winter
by Nell Porter-Brown
Priscilla Chan Grants $12 Million for Public Service
A grant for Phillips Brooks House
by John S. Rosenberg
A Transformative Gift of Dutch Drawings
George Abrams ’54, J.D. ’57, donates his collection to the Harvard Art Museums.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
From the Archives: The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead
A Harvard botanist investigates mystic potions, voodoo rites, and the making of zombies.
by Gino Del Guercio
Father and Son, and E.E. Cummings
What one undergraduate learned
by James C. Beck
Guy Davenport
Brief life of a polymathic stylist: 1927-2005
by Eric Allen Been
The Justice Gap
America’s unfulfilled promise of “equal justice under law”
by Lincoln Caplan
Oenophile Par Excellence
Anne Fadiman ’74 recalls her father, Clifton, in an excerpt from The Wine Lover’s Daughter
Found in Translation
Maureen Freely ’74, longtime translator of Orhan Pamuk, shares the nuances of bringing a text from one language to another.
by Oset Babür