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From cradle to grave, through history

This is the latest installment in the Gazette’s summer series showcasing recent books by Harvard authors. It took a while for Jill Lepore to realize she was writing a full-blown book about the ways...

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A Julia-worthy feast

Before “Iron Chef,” before Rachael Ray, before Emeril Lagasse, there was Julia Child. A 6-foot-2 culinary force of nature, Child used her passion for food, her wit, and her down-to-earth charm to...

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Wedding digital with traditional

During a crowded reception at Harvard’s Arts @ 29 Garden, Travis K. Bost, M.Des.S. ’12, reached toward a small shelf of books and removed a green volume. Choosing a book happens all the time at a...

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Seeds of inspiration

When Susan Hardy Brown first volunteered at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University in 1985, she never thought she would spend the next 25 years saving bits of leaves and sprigs of grass for her...

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‘From Austen to Zola’

Amy Lowell — a controversial, cigar-smoking, outspoken, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet — collected works by prominent creative artists such as Jane Austen, Ludwig von Beethoven, William Blake, Charlotte...

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Let them both eat cake

On the gridiron, the legendary Harvard-Yale clash is simply called “The Game.” Off the field, the competition between the two Ivy universities can be equally intense. Students from the schools...

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At 50, a building still dares

Edward Lloyd was perched on a stepladder in the Sert Gallery, a third-floor exhibition space at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. He had just a few hours to put the finishing touches on...

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Of love, death, and garbage

A tiger in love with its keeper and an unemployed man impersonating a doctor are among the many mesmerizing and mysterious characters that populate Rajesh Parameswaran’s first collection of short...

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Voice packed with passion

Some students were seasoned veterans. Some were novices, with jitters. Some had committed their work to memory; others had jotted their thoughts on paper that trembled slightly in their hands. In a...

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Best practices writ large

Over the course of a conversation, Clayton Christensen — by turns engaged and engaging, expansive and thoughtful — will likely stumble over a word or two. On this particular occasion, it’s “grocery...

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Death and the Civil War

In a rare on-campus film premiere Tuesday, Harvard screened “Death and the Civil War,” a documentary by Ric Burns, co-producer of the acclaimed 1990 PBS series “The Civil War.” Burns said the new film...

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The sacred Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison’s complex style can prove challenging to some readers, but the celebrated writer makes no apologies for her prose. When media mogul Oprah Winfrey once remarked that she didn’t understand...

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Mighty exhibit

Roberto Mighty wants Fisher Museum visitors to leave his art exhibit on Sunday with a reverence for the central Massachusetts landscape and a few modern lessons based on how Puritans and Native...

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The tale of Benny and Jenny

Jane Mecom, Benjamin Franklin’s younger sister and closest confidante, died in 1794. Jill Lepore is writing a book to bring her back. The Harvard historian has spent years, off and on, researching the...

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The literary landscape

Though it looked like a science fair on the outside, what with all the poster boards on display, Wednesday’s Literary Homecoming was a success, drawing delegates from the campus’s literary scene and...

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Visions of doom

In the fall of 1833, an English nobleman and novelist by the name of Edward Bulwer-Lytton passed through Milan — part of a journey to both regain his health and escape a hectoring wife. (Yes, that...

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Bon appétit! Julia at 100

Friends, family, former colleagues, and devoted fans gathered at Harvard on Friday for a party celebrating the vivacious woman who revolutionized American culinary culture. The only person missing was...

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Speaking volumes

Three experts in medieval sermon studies walk into a Harvard Square bar. One of them says … But this is no joke. Last week, the world’s authorities on centuries-old catechetical discourse gathered at...

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The book club goes online

When a family lives in times of turmoil, what do you tell the children? Do you shield a 9-year-old from Moammar Gadhafi’s Libya? Adolf Hitler’s Germany? How much do you tell them about slavery?...

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Back to Birmingham

Journalist and historian Diane McWhorter decided to re-issue her prize-winning book, “Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution,” after she discovered new...

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