Tag: Writer

  • Nation & World

    Knowledge isn’t everything

    An interview with Emily Ogden ’02 about her new book, “On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays.”

    6 minutes
    Emily Ogden.
  • Nation & World

    Blowing his own horn

    Musician Fred Ho received the Harvard Arts Medal and performed the premiere of his piece, “Take the Zen Train,” with the Harvard Jazz Bands.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    From the borderline

    Under a big tent set for lunch in breezy Radcliffe Yard on Friday (June 8), Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison offered a gathering of 950 graduates, fellows, and friends a brief meditation on the oblique efficacy of the humanities. She said these “creative, imaginative arts” counsel, goad, and interrogate American culture from its own borders.

    4 minutes
    Toni Morrison.
  • Nation & World

    FAS names Bruce Western professor of sociology

    Bruce Western, a leading social scientist in the field of inequality, whose work is focused on incarceration and labor market stratification, has been appointed professor of sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective July 1. In addition to his appointment in FAS, Western will also direct the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and…

    3 minutes