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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleWedding 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...
View ArticleSeeds 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...
View Article‘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...
View ArticleLet 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...
View ArticleAt 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...
View ArticleOf 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...
View ArticleVoice 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...
View ArticleBest 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...
View ArticleDeath 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleMighty 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleVisions 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...
View ArticleBon 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...
View ArticleSpeaking 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...
View ArticleThe 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?...
View ArticleBack 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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