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
Finding Voices
Marilyn Booth translates Arabic literature for Anglophone readers.
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
“Like Driving at Night”
Maggie Shipstead’s time-spanning, globe-circling new novel
by Dan Kelly
Keeping Them Close
A pediatrician cares for a city’s children.
by Nell Porter-Brown
Balloting Begins
The annual election of Overseers and alumni association directors is under way.
by John S. Rosenberg
Bringing the Stars to Light
Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Baking Sourdough Bread Is a Survival Instinct
A Harvard grandmother’s—and grandson’s—research
by Jacob Sweet
Due Process
Jeannie Suk Gersen on the law, trauma, and “the rhetoric of believing”
by Lydialyle Gibson
Elizabeth Bangs Bryant
Brief life of an underappreciated arachnologist
by Reed Gochberg
Attention to Detail
Nicholas Callaway publishes the Sistine Chapel in closeup.
by Lydialyle Gibson
A Lone Star Saga
Fiction about “the power that comes to us when we uncloset ourselves”
by Lydialyle Gibson