Arts & Culture
Breaking Bread
Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.
by Jack R. Trapanick
Off the Shelf
In love with Harvard Square, the invention of ICUs, Seamus Heaney
The Modern World Reconceived
Interpreting politics through the rise of technocracy, morality, and the “web of capital”
by J. Bradford Delong
Trading Finance for Flowers
Cultivating local blooms in Upton, Massachusetts
by Nell Porter Brown
Comedy with a Conscience
Jimmy Tingle’s political humor in a polarized era
by Craig Lambert
Finding the Movie
Screenwriter Julian Breece on “writing from the soul”
by Lydialyle Gibson
Stories of a Not-So-Distant War
Novelist V.V. Ganeshananthan on writing diasporic fiction
by Bailey Trela
“Something Is Very Broken”
Boston Area Gleaners fights hunger from the ground up.
by Nell Porter Brown
The Harvard Forest Dioramas
Scenes of an ever-changing forest, in miniature
by Nancy Walecki
Eating Around Cambridge
A selection of celebratory spots
by Nell Porter Brown
Hume, Heaney, Harvard—and Peace in Northern Ireland
In life and literature, living “dangerously out between” opposing factions while seeking common ground
by Marilynn Richtarik