The ongoing allure of Tolkien
Harvard’s Stephen Mitchell, professor of Scandinavian folklore and a longtime fan of the fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkien, recently sat down with the Gazette’s Colleen Walsh to discuss some of the...
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Good, but never simple
Toni Morrison silenced the audience in Sanders Theatre on Thursday afternoon, not with one of her own stories, but with a tragic tale from real life. The author, the recipient of the Nobel Prize in...
View ArticleGirls who rock out
“She likes death metal and bunnies at the same time.” That’s how Laura’s friend describes her in the documentary “Girls Rock!,” which follows a group of 8- to 17-year-old girls who convene for a week...
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An ancient statue, re-created
As part of a repair job 3,300 years in the making, Harvard’s Semitic Museum is seeking to undo some of the destruction wrought when Assyrians smashed the ancient city of Nuzi in modern-day Iraq,...
View ArticleLincoln’s dimensions
The friendship between President Drew Faust and “Lincoln” screenwriter Tony Kushner dates to the spring of 2008, when Kushner came to campus to deliver the annual Tanner Lectures on Human Values. “I...
View ArticleApocalypse now? Hardly
Goodbye, cruel world. With a mere 22 days left in the Mayan calendar — pinpointing our worldly demise on Dec. 21 — we should all be getting things straight in our own lives, cautions David Carrasco. He...
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Disruptive music
A musical visionary took the stage at the Radcliffe gymnasium on Monday. His innovations, said Harvard Professor and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow Ingrid Monson, are on a par with those...
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To understand, make a map
“Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary,” an exhibit of new and old mapmaking at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), is meant to inspire a rising generation of designers to...
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Note taking in a clickable age
An observer only had to glance around the Radcliffe Gymnasium to understand the tactile nature and evolving techniques of the subject, literally, at hand. Some people tapped away on laptop computers,...
View ArticlePoetry in the making
Forget “Gangnam Style,” the bigger-than-life song sensation that swept in from South Korea. David McCann is rather big in Korea too. Not for his dancing or his audacious music videos, but for his...
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Creating a whole from fragments
In the hands of artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, a few photographic works prove powerful enough to make a profound statement about family and the Afro-Latin experience in America. “I tried to talk...
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Exorcising the curse of knowledge
On a snowy, windy evening the day after the election, author Steven Pinker told a packed audience at Sever Hall exactly what’s wrong with so much academic writing: It’s filled with abstract language,...
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A collection unlike others
During her 20 years at Harvard, Leslie Morris has led what any book lover might see as a charmed life. As the curator of Modern Books & Manuscripts at Houghton Library, she has befriended John...
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When jazz was king
Three prominent local jazz figures came to Harvard last Thursday to discuss their work and their efforts over three decades to promote America’s signature musical sound. In an event sponsored by the...
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The art of the possible
One recent afternoon in the fourth-floor gallery of the Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, a young girl paused near a massive color woodcut by Chicago-based artist Kerry James Marshall. As...
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The designing woman
Most people would say that being able to do something they love for eight hours a day, five days a week, is a rare gift. For Jessica Brilli, it’s an everyday reality. The graphic designer uses her...
View ArticleFound in translation
Literary scholar Roger Chartier took on the question of “When and Why Do Literary Manuscripts Matter?” at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on Oct. 18, exploring the creation of literary...
View Article‘While Josh Sleeps’
Read the full Gazette story on Josh Bell and hear “Hidden Lake.” I am a system of oppression and you’re a Scorpio, with Austin coasting toward us as the shark, though all we can really see from here...
View ArticleFor whom Josh Bell tolls
As a boy, poet Josh Bell says he was “quiet, timid, nervous … the same as I am now.” So it’s a tad surprising that Bell, the new Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English, has been inspired by bad boy and...
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