The Harvard Advocate

The Harvard Advocate Harvard's undergraduate literary magazine publishing art, fiction, poetry, criticism, and nonfiction features. www.theharvardadvocate.com

The Harvard Advocate, founded in 1866, is the oldest continuously published collegiate literary magazine in the country. Over its long history, it can count T.S. Eliot, Conrad Aiken, and Norman Mailer among its members and e.e. cummings, Jack Kerouac, and Tom Wolfe as contributors to its pages. A quarterly magazine, its mission is to publish the best art, fiction, poetry, and prose that the Harvar

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Read the Advocate, beat Yale
11/06/2025

Read the Advocate, beat Yale

it’s a bird! it’s a plane! it’s a- no, wait, an advo cafe and flea market! photos by
10/20/2025

it’s a bird! it’s a plane! it’s a- no, wait, an advo cafe and flea market!

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advo flea market on sunday! 11 am to 3:30 pm at 21 south street - come for vibes and buys
10/18/2025

advo flea market on sunday! 11 am to 3:30 pm at 21 south street - come for vibes and buys

sunday in the sanctum
10/12/2025

sunday in the sanctum

JOIN US FOR THE LAUNCH OF THE FALL 2025 DIAGNOSIS ISSUE! Launch party on Friday at 9:30, readings start at 10, party at ...
09/10/2025

JOIN US FOR THE LAUNCH OF THE FALL 2025 DIAGNOSIS ISSUE! Launch party on Friday at 9:30, readings start at 10, party at 11. FREE ISSUES AND ENTRY before 10:30, open bar.

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09/08/2025

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09/05/2025

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Our final Summer 2025 art piece: Fractured Grace by Salma Omer, ceramic, 18 x 12 x 16 in., 2025.
08/28/2025

Our final Summer 2025 art piece: Fractured Grace by Salma Omer, ceramic, 18 x 12 x 16 in., 2025.

“Portraits of People at Dinner Parties No. 3” by Dylan Ragas ‘26, published in our Summer 2025 issue.Oil on panel, 24 x ...
08/14/2025

“Portraits of People at Dinner Parties No. 3” by Dylan Ragas ‘26, published in our Summer 2025 issue.
Oil on panel, 24 x 30 in., 2025.

“Dinner Scene” by Sky Jung ‘25, published in the Summer 2025 issue available online now.Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 in., 2025...
08/12/2025

“Dinner Scene” by Sky Jung ‘25, published in the Summer 2025 issue available online now.
Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 in., 2025.

have you been missing your advokats over these last months? we’re quite far away and quite close to home, and is a bit ...
08/07/2025

have you been missing your advokats over these last months? we’re quite far away and quite close to home, and is a bit of both.

Hey guys, this is Frank reporting in. This summer I’ve been between Cambridge, MA and Freetown, Sierra Leone, where I am teaching a graduate course on public health. It’s my second time in SL and I’m still learning about disease — including a current mpox outbreak — have shaped the country. In addition to managing Advocate affairs from an ocean away, I’ve had a lot of time to read and ponder about the role of imagination and disease in novels: reading list includes The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann), Middlemarch (George Eliot), The Illness Narratives (Arthur Kleinman). I’m glad I even got to include A Journal of a Plague Year (Daniel Defoe) in teaching the public health course.

☀️Summer poetry by Sophie Sardari & Ziyi Yan now up! Submissions for the Summer Issue are still open.☀️
08/01/2025

☀️Summer poetry by Sophie Sardari & Ziyi Yan now up! Submissions for the Summer Issue are still open.☀️

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