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Jorge Olivera Castillo is a writer and journalist and a well-known Cuban dissident. He was sentenced to prison by the Cuban government for his political views but was released after 21 months. He is now at Harvard through the Scholars at Risk program.

Out of ‘the wolf’s mouth’

Scholar at Risk, a Cuban journalist and poet who was once jailed, savors everyday life at Harvard

World|

DateDecember 6, 2016March 4, 2019

A joint Harvard-New England Conservatory student concentrating in English, George Li is a piano virtuoso looking to make connections between his instrument and the literature he reads.

Artful balance

Pianist George Li discovers a quieter creativity in English concentration

Campus|

DateSeptember 6, 2016September 11, 2017

In this drawing, “Esther pour Reynaldo Hahn,” Marcel Proust inscribed Hahn’s initials (RH) on the female figure’s crown and on the pages of the open book. He replaced the caption “Concordia” with the biblical “Esther,” the subject of a 1905 opera by Hahn, and he set her next to her adoptive father “Mordecai,” drawn from a statue of Saint Jerome. Below, Proust wrote that Esther is shown “with little birds,” while Mordecai is “botsched.”

A remembrance of things Proust

Harvard will devote a semester celebrating Marcel Proust

Arts|

DateFebruary 12, 2013April 10, 2019