Commentary
Breaking Bread
Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.
by Jack R. Trapanick
Cambridge 02138
Readers’ views on the Supreme Court, reparations, the humanities, and more
Advising
President Bacow on conversations with students
by Lawrence Bacow
Farewell
Remembering Henry Rosovsky
Home, Harvard, and (Im)permanence
The complicated return to campus post-pandemic
by Sofia Andrade
Fernando Zóbel-Montojo
Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984
by Felipe Pereda
The “Harvard Novel” Enters the Twenty-first Century
On Elif Batuman’s fictions
by Beth Blum
Bookish
Course catalog redux, a Chinese take on Harvard “glitz and glamour,” and the mathmetician-movie buff
by Primus VI
Mum’s the Word
The endowment data drought, and the FAS dean’s downsized report
Yesterday’s News
Headlines from Harvard’s history
Portraying Larry Summers
Celebrating the twenty-seventh president—and assessing his legacy
by John S. Rosenberg