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  1. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Samantha Laine Perfas

    Does having a bad dream make you a bad person? — Harvard Gazette (opens the original)

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    A series of random questions answered by Harvard experts. Deirdre Leigh Barrett is a dream researcher and a Harvard Medical School lecturer on psychology in the department of psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance. She is also the author of “The Committee of Sleep: How Artists, Scientists, and Athletes Use Their Dreams for Creative Problem Solving — And How You Can Too.” Dream interpretation is tricky. Let’s say there’s a dog in your dream. I find it helpful to ask: What is a dog to you? You mi

  2. Article · Aug 17, 2026 · Samantha Laine Perfas

    Holding onto your humanity, against the herd— Harvard Gazette (opens the original)

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    It’s Sunday morning, and everything seems normal in the small town — until a peculiar transformation happens: One by one, the townspeople turn into rhinoceroses. So begins the first production of the American Repertory Theater’s 2026-2027 season, an adaptation based on Derek Prouse’s English translation of the Eugène Ionesco absurdist play “Rhinoceros,” which premiered in 1959. Directed by the Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus ’88, “Rhinoceros” features three Emmy Award-win

  3. Article · Jul 22, 2026 · Samantha Laine Perfas

    He never thought he’d write a comedy. Then came Miles. — Harvard Gazette (opens the original)

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    An academic superstar, her devoted husband, two kids, and dog pack up in the Bay Area of California and head out on a great American road trip to start the wife’s yearlong visiting professorship in rural Vermont. So begins “Country People,” the fifth novel by award-winning author and psychiatrist Daniel Mason ’98. The story centers around the husband, Miles, as he tries to embrace small-town life and finish the dissertation he’s been nursing for 14 years, all while battling his own wandering sen

  4. Article · Jul 20, 2026 · Samantha Laine Perfas

    Colson Whitehead discusses new novel ‘Cool Machine’ — Harvard Gazette (opens the original)

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    Colson Whitehead made history as the first novelist to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction for consecutive works, “The Underground Railroad” (2017) and “The Nickel Boys” (2020). Now, Whitehead ’91 is back in the limelight with “Cool Machine,” the final installment of his Harlem trilogy. The novel, set in the 1980s, continues to follow the shenanigans of furniture salesman Ray Carney as he juggles family life with the unexpected needs of various criminal enterprises. In an interview with the Gaze

  5. Article · Jul 6, 2026 · Samantha Laine Perfas

    Harvard design expert challenges man-made world — Harvard Gazette (opens the original)

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    Did you know that most sneakers were designed around the male foot and those of women are different? Reuther has worked in the design industry for more than 40 years. A former executive at the major apparel companies Reebok and Nike, she experienced firsthand the way the world has been designed and built largely by — and for — men. Her new book, “MAN-MADE: How We Designed a World That Leaves Women Out, and How We Can Make It Right,” explores the ways that the old “shrink it and pink it” marketin

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