Arts & Culture
The Picture of Freedom
A Boston Athenaeum exhibit explores an abolitionist with Harvard ties.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Millicent Todd Bingham
Brief life of an unlikely Dickinson scholar
by Julie Dobrow
The Players
How the Crimson squad from the immortal ’68 Game revealed a transforming Harvard
by George Howe Colt
Darkness Visible
Opera director Sarah Meyers doesn’t want you to notice everything.
by Jennifer Gersten
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Medicine Minus Mythmaking
Two Harvard doctors on William Carlos Williams
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Coming Apart Together
The propulsive intensity of Shane McCrae’s poetry
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Weight of Scale
Questions about how societies conceptualize, perceive, and interpret scale.
The Devil and Philip Johnson
A “star-chitect” as P.T. Barnum
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
Be Present: Experiential Holiday Gifts for Everyone on Your List
A roundup of creative gift ideas for this holiday season
by Kara Baskin