Tag: The New Yorker
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Nation & World
No return to Camelot
The New Yorker’s Susan B. Glasser discusses her new book, “The Divider: Trump in the White House 2017-2021.”
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Nation & World
Political spark that ignited firestorm across dry, divided land
In his new book, “Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury,” Evan Osnos ’98 writes about the transformation in U.S. between 9/11 and the attack on the Capitol.
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Nation & World
Annette Gordon-Reed on Texas history and growing up there in the ’60s and ’70s
Harvard historian Annette Gordon-Reed explores the history of Texas, blending research and personal memoir.
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Arts & Culture
Kevin Young and a unified theory of Black culture — and himself
Kevin Young ’92, the newly named director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, discusses his life and work.
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Nation & World
Inside the Mueller inquiry and the ‘deep state’
New York Times and New Yorker writer James B. Stewart discusses President Trump’s ongoing war with federal law enforcement agencies and how his effort to label anyone who challenges him as the “deep state” will have damaging repercussions for the nation.
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Campus & Community
Phi Beta Kappa ceremony honors 168 students
Eric Lander, president and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and poet Dan Chiasson, poetry critic for The New Yorker and a professor at Wellesley College, spoke before honored students and faculty at the 229th Phi Beta Kappa literary exercises at Sanders Theatre on Tuesday morning.
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Nation & World
Champions of the press
New Yorker investigative reporter Jane Mayer and former New York Times editor Jill Abramson will deliver the 29th Theodore H. White Lecture at Harvard Kennedy School Tuesday evening.
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Arts & Culture
Why did Jill Lepore write an epic of U.S. history? It’s a long story
Lepore speaks with the Gazette about our shared past, her central argument, Supreme Court fan mail, and more.
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Arts & Culture
The poetic perspective
Amanda Gorman, the inaugural U.S. youth poet laureate and a Harvard junior, wrote a poem for Harvard President Larry Bacow’s inauguration based on the University’s history, Bacow’s love of running, and his approach to the job that emphasizes the long-term nature of achievement and the importance of working together toward change.
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Arts & Culture
When the genius is also a symbol of hate, where does that leave us?
Author and New Yorker music critic Alex Ross ’90 spoke at Harvard on his work in progress, “Wagnerism: Art in the Shadow of Music.”
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Arts & Culture
Getting the record straight
The Italian actor and director who was one of the first women to accuse Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault criticized the “simplification” of her story by New Yorker journalist Ronan Farrow. During a talk at Harvard Hall, Asia Argento also called for women to unite to end sexual harassment and assault.
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Nation & World
Losing King: Shock, sorrow, anger, and a voice time hasn’t silenced
Harvard scholars reflect on the life, death, and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., 50 years after his assassination in Memphis, Tenn.
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Nation & World
Reforming criminal justice
A new program at Harvard Law School aims to help reform the criminal justice system in the United States with assistance from Harvard students and faculty, says executive director Larry Schwartztol.
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Arts & Culture
A journey into illness
Poet and memoirist Meghan O’Rourke is using her time as a Radcliffe Fellow to write “What’s Wrong With Me,” a chronicle of her struggles with autoimmune disease.
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Arts & Culture
Encounters with Tennessee Williams
A comprehensive collection of material at Houghton Library shines a light on the life and work of Tennessee Williams.
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Campus & Community
Keys to a good life
Three Harvard scholars offered their thoughts on what it means to lead a good life in today’s complex world in advance of a London talk sponsored by the Harvard Alumni Association.
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Arts & Culture
Creative bursts from all corners
A daylong symposium at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study explored the notion of the creative “aha” moment across a range of fields and disciplines.
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Arts & Culture
James Wood’s lighter side
James Wood, Harvard professor and New Yorker critic, talked to the Gazette about his new book, “The Fun Stuff,” losing himself in music, and a looser approach to fiction.
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Nation & World
Inside the Supreme Court
Political pundit, author, and Supreme Court watcher Jeffrey Toobin offered an inside look at the nation’s top judicial body during a discussion at Sanders Theatre on Thursday.
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Arts & Culture
From cradle to grave, through history
In “The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death,” Professor Jill Lepore shows, with wit and wisdom, that our existential anxieties are anything but new.
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Arts & Culture
Updike’s roots and evolution
Harvard’s Houghton Library offers a glimpse of a coming treasure trove for scholars, the John Updike Archive.
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Nation & World
To the heart of a movement
Professor Jill Lepore, a contributor to The New Yorker, examines the movement behind the tea party in “The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History.”