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FM Front Feature

Harvard’s Taylor Swift Scholar on “The Life of a Showgirl”

For Harvard English professor Stephanie Burt, “The Life of a Showgirl” is not, as it was for me, a confusing, Travis Kelce-themed departure from the artist I’d known and loved most of my life. Rather, Burt says, it’s a retrospective.

Pop-Up Bagels New Harvard Square Location Opening
Around Town

This is not a review of PopUp Bagels.

PopUp Bagels, the “not famous but known” bagel shop (whatever the hell that means), boasts the lightning-quick wait times of a Ray Kroc McDonald’s on steroids, serving customers nearly instantly by chucking their orders into brown paper bags.

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Introspection

Pit Stop Before Sincerity Hits Too Hard

Back then, I never wondered who she was beyond my mother. Her life seemed fully formed, on track, speeding down a highway. I was the asshole who cut her off.

Jim McArthur, Manager of the Electronic Instrument Design Lab
Conversations

The Electronic Instrument Design Lab Says Goodbye to Jim MacArthur

Jim MacArthur manages Harvard’s Electronic Instrument Design Lab, fulfilling specific instrumentation requests across departments as what he calls a “short-order engineer.” After 25 years, he’s announced his retirement with a year’s notice, but he doesn’t know if a replacement will be hired.

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Around Town

The BerryLine Line Lines the Street and It’s Berry, Berry Long.

The sheer length of the line has caused many to scratch their heads and wonder: what changed?

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Introspection

Scientists and the Face of God

I believed in science, but I also believed in agency. To think of myself as a machine driven by chemical reactions beyond my control felt outrageous. I knew myself to be more than just a body. I wanted to believe that I was also a mind.

Levity

Visiting your internet-free cafe won’t satiate my bottomless hunger for brainrot

I’m more certain than ever that memes are at the top of my food pyramid, and I’m disillusioned from any notion that matcha and mousse might sufficiently correct my diet.

Ed Childs Portrait
Conversations

Ed Childs Didn’t Plan to Come to Harvard. After 50 Years, He’s Still Organizing Its Workers.

Over a half-century of organizing, he has seen the union through two strikes, participated in dozens of demonstrations, and traversed the globe in search of other workers’ stories.

Grendel's
Around Town

Bar None

Harvard Square (and Cambridge more broadly) is in desperate need of sports bars. What gives?

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Introspection

Dear Senior Year

I love the life Harvard has given me, not because it’s been perfect, but because it hasn’t been. Freshman year exhilarated me, sophomore year disarmed me, junior year repaired me, and you, senior year, have made me proud.

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The Case for Studying Abroad in Cuba

I remember being afraid of two things as I left Cuba: that the language would leave me and that, as I attempted to convey the last four months to people gnawing at the bit for answers to the questions about this mythical place, I would fail to do the island justice.

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Introspection

In Pursuit of Knowledge

I have found my place at Harvard by leaving it, using Harvard resources to open my eyes to the broader world.

Widener Library
Conversations

What’s Next in the Fight for Harvard’s Future?

Lawrence H. Summers, a former Harvard president and Secretary of the Treasury, backs the University’s decision to push back against the Trump administration, explains how the endowment could help weather the storm, and says this crisis will ultimately strengthen higher education.

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Introspection

An Inhabitable Archive

What stays behind isn’t paint or plaster; it’s the way we’ve marked each other when the walls themselves were the only witnesses.

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Around Town

Luxor Cafe, After Dark

People are crowded around tables, playing cards, Connect 4, Othello, and other games taken from a nearby communal shelf. One wall is decorated with Egyptian hieroglyphics, another with a span of Polaroids.

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