Features | March-April 2009
Playwright Christopher Durang, a “native American absurdist,” writes black comedies that turn painful events into hilarity.
John Harvard's Journal | March-April 2009
Star shooting guard Jeremy Lin excels in nearly every phase of basketball.
Right Now | March-April 2009
In Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery, Glenda Carpio describes how slavery has provided a background and a source of raw material for African-American humor.
Features | January-February 2009
Art historian Robin Kelsey examines photographs of all kinds to reveal what they say about human history, society, and culture.
Montage | November-December 2008
Fabric artist Linda Liu Behar stitches embroideries atop her own photographs.
Features | November-December 2008
Craig Lambert profiles the poet Richard Wilbur.
Montage | September-October 2008
In “The Three Little Pigs,” the big, bad wolf huffs and puffs and easily blows down the first piglet’s straw house.
Features | September-October 2008
Ian Frazier combines an historian's discipline with an original comic mind...
Montage | May-June 2008
Screenwriter turned novelist Eric Lerner ’71 finds his voice...
Montage | March-April 2008
For a long time, Patricia Marx ’75 assumed she “would wake up in the suburbs with three kids and a mother hairdo.” It...
New England Regional | March-April 2008
The charmingly small, civilly quiet T.W. Food, in the Huron Village area of Cambridge, seems to have arrived in the right place at the right...
Features | March-April 2008
The hamlet of Alkali Lake, about 100 miles north of Vancouver, is home to one of a handful of surviving Shuswap bands of Native Americans in...
