Harvard Review articles

Recent articles from Harvard Review

Editorial.(Editorial)
June 1, 2008... The economy is on everyone's mind these days, but it's helpful to remember that this isn't the first time and it won't be the last. I used to joke that every time I got a degree I found the country plunged into recession. It made finding work a little bit harder and meant that I had to do...

What we kept.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... We kept the war under our skins we kept it in our hamstrings in our bones. We kept the war in our cereal bowls in our juice kept it in our first love standing in the porch light waiting to be kissed. We kept it close in the hems of our shirts our face cream kept it in our...

The tender wish to buy this world.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... The tender wish to buy this world. The shedding of leaves from the wallet of morning. Down low by the bridge in this city of money, I will take down this axe, shatter gently this greed. We are thinking of our heartfelt need, Our man, his brain dreaming atop the clean pillow. In the...

A sad harp.(Poem)(Brief article)
June 1, 2008... My little instrument, my denouement, Pass me through to this fine place of whimsy. I am dreaming in my head of heart, my heart then of my head. I am dreaming in my head of books, Of books now bent, their words destroyed. Are we thinking of this form as harm, we derelict, we deadly?...

In the Pines.(Short story)
June 1, 2008... For the third time Alta was free. Freed of obligation and freed of men and freed of her home of ten years, a palm-log cabin with two dining rooms. She was seventy-four years old but she still felt like a young woman. Long ago she'd foreseen the day when time's advance would collapse her into...