Arts & Culture

Barry Van Dusen’s watercolor of an Eastern bluebird, as described. by Henry David Thoreau

Montage | July-August 2024

Off the Shelf

Painting with Monet, birding with Thoreau, and other recent books

Painted fresco of a landscape, from a Roman villa

Montage | July-August 2020

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Students & Alumni |

Life After Harvard: The Pains and Pleasures of Alumni Reunions

How Harvard reunions are cast in Ceridwen Dovey’s Life After Truth

by Nell Porter Brown

Photograph of Colson Whitehead

University News |

A Second Pulitzer for Colson Whitehead

The Nickel Boys wins the 2020 prize for fiction.

The St. Louis, Missouri, skyline on the Mississippi River with the Gateway Arch visible, as seen from across the Mississippi River in East St. Louis, Illinois

Features | May-June 2020

From Lewis and Clark to Michael Brown

Walter Johnson’s radical history of St. Louis

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Posthumous portrait of astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin looking up and through a window, echoing Vermeer’s painting “The Astronomer”

Features | May-June 2020

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

Brief life of a breakthrough astronomer: 1900-1979

by Donovan Moore

Photograph of swimming hole cut in ice

Montage | May-June 2020

Taking the Plunge

The Business School’s Rebecca Henderson reimagines capitalism to save the planet.

J. B. Jackson drawing of telephone poles on open plain

Montage | May-June 2020

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Paul Yoon

Montage | May-June 2020

The Fiction of Limbo

Novelist Paul Yoon explores Laos’s forgotten war.

by Bailey Trela

Photograph of Radcliffe Bunting Fellows circa 1964-1972

Montage | May-June 2020

The “Messy Experiment”

From “women’s confinement” to “women’s liberation” at the Radcliffe Institute

by Susan Ware

Montage | May-June 2020

Chapter & Verse

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words