The personal is political in Celeste Ng’s books. In her three best-selling novels, the Cambridge resident highlights Asian American characters…
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Susan Meiselas didn’t set out to be a photographer. The documentary photographer, filmmaker, and president of the Magnum Foundation was…
When Joseph Koerner first began teaching Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch at Harvard in the 1990s, he saw him as the…
For Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, fiction is a calling. Last week, the former Radcliffe fellow and 2018 Class Day speaker visited…
Growing up in Switzerland, Jessie Cox found it difficult to speak about being Black. Black lives remained largely unthought of…
Homer’s “Odyssey” has captured people’s imaginations for nearly 3,000 years. Testaments to its enduring appeal abound: A recent stage adaptation…
When the future feels overwhelming, some of us stock up on canned goods while others turn to books. Science fiction…
When someone asks Damion Searls how he “chooses” words for a translation, he likens it to asking a reader how…
Excerpted from “Memorial Days” by Geraldine Brooks, Radcliffe Fellow ’06, visiting lecturer ’21, published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin…
Two figures, a man and a woman, stand at a shoreline. They face away from the viewer and toward the…