Arts & Culture
Breaking Bread
Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.
by Jack R. Trapanick
Making Art behind Bars
Formerly imprisoned artists discuss practice, community, and mass incarceration.
by Lydialyle Gibson
It's Still Hard for Women in Science
New book on Nancy Hopkins speaks to women's fight for equality then—and their fight now
by Nancy Walecki
Adrian Piper to Receive Harvard Arts Medal
Spanning more than 50 years, the conceptual artist’s work explores race, class, gender, and identity.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Attuned to Pianos
An instrument restorer’s beautiful obsession
by Lydialyle Gibson
What Birds’ Nests Tell Us
Inside the Museum of Comparative Zoology’s revealing birds’ egg and nest collection
by John S. Rosenberg
Henry Clarke Warren
Brief life of a Harvard-educated Buddhist scholar: 1854-1899
by David Gauld
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
From War Zones to the North Shore
A new novel from foreign correspondent Wendell Steavenson
by Lydialyle Gibson
Litchfield’s Legal Eagles
Visiting America’s first formal law school
by Nell Porter Brown
The Case for Cultural Appropriation
How humans hybridize their civilizations
by Adam Kirsch