Featured series 
Tag: Humanities
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Arts & Culture
Helping us make our way ‘through a world that can feel broken’
Maria Tatar has spent her career tracing evolution of folk, fairy tales, explaining why they still matter
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Science & Tech
Is there a philosopher in the house?
Tech insiders call for humanist-scientist discourse amid ‘Copernican moment’ of AI age
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Arts & Culture
Holding onto your humanity, against the herd
A.R.T. kicks off season with ‘Rhinoceros,’ starring Paul Giamatti, Tatiana Maslany, and John Turturro
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Arts & Culture
A bond stronger than blood
Tayari Jones digs into themes of latest novel, ‘Kin’: ‘We all need chosen family.’
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Arts & Culture
Daniel Mason never thought he’d write a comedy. Then came Miles.
Award-winning novelist details path he followed to write ‘Country People’
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Arts & Culture
Ray Carney’s been selling used furniture in Harlem forever. It’s a useful front.
Two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead discusses ‘Cool Machine,’ his new novel and final installment of trilogy
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Campus & Community
The bear? Nonchalant. Me? More ‘chalant.’
Wooly visitor shakes up already challenging 460-mile summertime solo canoe trip through Yukon wilderness
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Arts & Culture
There may be several on your beach reads list. Ever wonder why?
Mysteries blend puzzle-solving with kind of catharsis, according to scholars, writers
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Arts & Culture
A life — and afterlife — in poetry
For Christian Wiman, ‘dead on the table’ more than once, suffering is no longer the only authentic thing
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Arts & Culture
‘Black Swan’ as a musical?
New adaptation of dark, psychological thriller film premieres at American Repertory Theater
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Campus & Community
Five recognized with honorary degrees
Recipients chosen for their lifetime contributions and transformative achievements
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Campus & Community
Funny but serious, Chieng issues an AI warning to grads
‘Daily Show’ star and Class Day headliner is fine writing his own emails
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Campus & Community
Lessons from ancient, modern, quantum worlds
Student speakers focus on celebrating difference while embracing ties that bind
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Campus & Community
Intellect is not enough
Phi Beta Kappa speakers urge Harvard grads to build character
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Campus & Community
Ronny Chieng named Class Day speaker
Emmy-winning comedian to address College grads on May 27
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Arts & Culture
Iranian history in tableaux
Photographer brings 11 key scenes from 20th century to life in Peabody exhibit
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Campus & Community
Lampoon looks back at 150 years of laughs
Alumni of humor magazine reunite for pop-up exhibit celebrating sesquicentennial
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Campus & Community
Presidential dreams can wait. For now, she can’t stop painting.
When Daniela Solis took an art class junior year, ‘it felt like time stopped.’
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Arts & Culture
A lost archive of Black history
25 years after landmark photography book, Deborah Willis is still scouring albums, attics, cabinets, cards to fill in the record
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Arts & Culture
When a fictional character becomes too real
Why Catherine Lacey can’t avoid ‘terrifying’ disclosures on the page and every story feels like her last
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Arts & Culture
Time has not been kind to VHS
As tech turns 50, preservationists race to save material stored on vanishing format. Methods include … baking?
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Arts & Culture
Writing about a pet frog is trivial? Anne Fadiman disagrees.
‘We need beauty, wit, and attention to small things even more when we have to face large, painful things,’ essayist says about new book
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Arts & Culture
A treasure trove for K-pop fans
‘Korean Stars’ course inspires Yenching’s 17-box collection of merch spanning ’90s to today
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Arts & Culture
Is this art Celtic? It’s complicated.
New Harvard Art Museums exhibition aims to upend expectations as it explores history, complexity of group of diverse peoples
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Arts & Culture
The art of College poetry
‘This is the thing I love,’ says one Harvard laureate. She’s not alone.
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Campus & Community
You know the author. Meet the typist.
Exhibit celebrates women who labored behind the scenes of masterworks
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Arts & Culture
Where have all the public intellectuals gone?
Panel discusses evolving tradition in U.S. due to social, economic shifts, and need for such thinkers in democratic cultures
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Arts & Culture
Who still goes to the movies?
For some, ease of streaming can’t beat thrill of watching films on the big screen
