Students & Alumni
Features on student life and alumni journeys, capturing the spirit, impact, and diversity of the Harvard community.
Harvard President Alan Garber Helps First-Years Move In
As a potential settlement with the Trump administration looms, Garber gets students settled.
Composer Ashley Fure unleashes her visceral opera “The Force of Things”
Composer Ashley Fure wants people to listen to noise.
Athlete Activism and Harvard Men's Basketball
Sociologist Harry Edwards and broadcaster James Brown weigh protest and progress in sports, and in Harvard basketball.
Freshman year, 10 years out
A graduate reflects on history—personal and otherwise.
Nuclear War in Korea? Eggs and Taxes More Urgent
Living calmly next to a rogue nuclear state
Alec Karakatsanis fights for criminal-justice reform in the U.S. legal system
Alec Karakatsanis puts “human caging” and “wealth-based detention” in America on trial.
A Life of Adventure and Delight
Akhil Sharma is less interested in ideology in itself than in politics as a backdrop to emotional conflict.
Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society members forge a lasting bond
Fifty years after they sang their way around the globe as undergraduates, they returned to Cambridge with full hearts and voices.
Recent books with Harvard connections
John Kenneth Galbraith’s letters, Linda Greenhouse, color in art, and more
Harvard alumnus James Coe is a Hudson Valley painter and bird artist
Landscape and bird artist James Coe reflects the Hudson Valley
HAA's new president Susan Morris Novick
Harvard’s new alumni leader touts its global reach.