Conversations
Painting With Motion
Slow, heavy piano notes fill the studio room in the Harvard Dance Center as the dancers unravel their bodies to the beat of the music. Among the bodies is Nejla Y. Yatkin. She moves with the rest of her students, twisting and turning as the music envelops them all.
How to Hold a Room in Silence
Slam poet Phil T. Kaye talks with FM about the power of performance and what it means to be creative.
Cat's-eye View
For Coleman, Catiline’s life was his own. He was no subservient, docile pet — it makes sense that the headstrong Catiline would author his own memoir. After all, as Coleman puts it: “Who can ever make a cat do something it doesn’t want to do?”
Harvard Meets 'Gossip Girl'
Take, for example, her depiction of Fifteen Minutes as a den of blackmail and sexual intrigue, consumed with publishing articles about whether freshman hemlines are “statistically… shorter than those of the female upperclassmen.”
From Fortune 500 to the Freedom Trail
“But about the time I hit about 27, 28 years old, I had the idea that I wanted to do more.” Unsure of what “more” consisted of, he began with the question, “Who am I?”
The Yellow Sub-Basement in Houghton Library
6 Houghton librarians + a little bit of musical training = the best Beatles cover band of all time.
Jill Abramson Thinks The Anger of Women Will Save Us
"I wanted the truth. I thought that her story sounded very credible, her vivid description of what happens, how terrified she was… just the level of detail and the fact that she was so reluctant to be identified and come forward."
Meet the Sociologist Studying the Brett Kavanaughs of the World
"These are formative years, and these students are learning how to interact with others and are developing incredibly powerful understandings of themselves and the world around them that they carry with them for their entire lives."
Retaking the Ivy League
Page after page of white men wearing rugby shirts, Bermuda shorts, and boat shoes strolling around brick buildings and grassy quads...
Sartorial Scholarship
The revamped "Re/Take Ivy" and original "Take Ivy" books are on FM's fashion reading list.
THIS FM REPORTER WALKED TO THE YARD TO HEAR ABOUT SINGING IN A BIG COLD RIVER
Maybe you were one of the 1.2 million people who, in the last month, watched the “Mamma Mia” cover on YouTube entitled “THIS MAN FLEW TO JAPAN TO SING ABBA IN A BIG COLD RIVER” and wondered, “What inspired such an elaborate video?”
The Not-Nun in Mather House
“I was so adamant. I needed to become a nun. The monastic life was captivating to me.”
15 Minutes with 21 Colorful Crimson
On a campus where most things are triangulated within four dimensions of irony, 21CC’s earnestness combines with genuine musicality to create what serious music critics call a “bop.”
