Christopher Reed

On the Road with Death

In a world where buses are "flying coffins" and "moving morgues" and pedestrians should tremble, pulblic-health experts take on a neglected...

NO on a Summer's Eve

One knew, perhaps, that the gas nitric oxide (NO) is a constituent of automobile exhaust and a big player in the formation of smog, and is no...

Jambalaya

Harvest's main dining room. The outdoor terrace can be a pleasant alternative. Photograph courtesy of Harvest Restaurant The landmark...

Pure Fabrications

Spend a day in church with Paul Matisse '54 and you will marvel at how the creator has shaped his world. Everywhere you look you see a...

Spring Sampler

Photographs by Jim Harrison unless otherwise indicated. Objects © President and Fellows of Harvard College Here begins an excursion...

Grits and Beyond

If you want a precious morsel of "lacquered" foie gras with bee pollen, go to Clio in Boston. If you want to be fed voluptuous...

Are American Liberties at Risk?

What threats to our constitutional culture should most concern us in the recent executive and legislative responses to September 11? asked...

Harvard as Seen in Its Buildings

As Harvard raises new buildings and begins thinking about its future presence on its Allston properties, will it conform to the prevailing...

Where the Gentrified Antelope Play

Three decades ago, Davis Square in Somerville was the pits. A Cambridge matron who lives nearby recalls walking her children over there for ice...

De Gustibus

Perhaps the most cheerful restaurant dining room in Cambridge is the main one at Up Stairs at the Pudding. But shed a tear. The delightful...

Museums in Motion

Spirits quickened inside certain Harvard museums this winter when the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Jeremy R. Knowles, began...

Justin Kaplan, editor of Bartlett's “Familiar Quotations," reveals his m.o.

Hunting quintessential quotations with the editor of Barlett's