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… in New England, by Maureen Meister (University Press of New England, $45). This useful illustrated guide to the movement that flowered from 1890 to 1920 puts into … Fellow Carter Wiseman, now a lecturer at the Yale School of Architecture, puts this genre of productive criticism in …
Issue: November-December 2014
The Corporation, Complete
… The announcement on September 23 that Jessica Tuchman … V. Wells Jr., J.D.-M.B.A. ’76, have been elected members of the University’s senior governing board, effective … ; and make it possible for the fellows to focus on matters of greatest strategic importance to Harvard. Tuchman, who …
Issue: November-December 2012
The Week’s Events
… Andrea Barrett, a novelist and short-story writer. Sanders Theatre. Baccalaureate Service for the Class of 2014, at 2, Memorial Church, followed by class photo, Widener steps. Class of 2014 Family Dinner and Party, at 6. Tickets required. …
Issue: May-June 2014
"Civilization Need Not Die"
… At the dinner for honorary-degree recipients the night before … Summers characterized Daniel Patrick Moynihan, using one of the latter's own terms, as a "great … to summon up the optimism that came with this great surprise. My beloved colleague Nathan Glazer and the revered …
Issue: July-August 2002
Off the Shelf
… Roosevelt’s Purge: How FDR Fought to Change the Democratic Party, by Susan Dunn, Ph.D. ’73 (Harvard, $27.95). The author, professor of humanities at Williams, dramatically narrates FDR’s 1938 …
Issue: November-December 2010
A Fragile Relationship
… At a time when the United States is preoccupied with its relations with … own relationships with one another. As Ezra Vogel, Ford professor of the social sciences emeritus, so brilliantly argues in …
Issue: July-August 2019
Off the Shelf
… Up on the Roof: New York’s Hidden Skyline Spaces, by Alex MacLean … principles, examining the Revolutionary War-era financial crises and the solutions crafted by Alexander Hamilton, … Press, $26 paper). Essays on language—rich in surprises because they are not necessarily about the words you …
Issue: November-December 2012
Off the Shelf
… M.L.A. ’97 (Aperture, $80). Misrach’s 1998 photographs of the lower Mississippi River, from Baton Rouge to New … change, the fate of their faculties and education enterprise is especially fraught today. An Enlarged Heart: …
Issue: January-February 2013
Off the Shelf
… Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary, edited by Steven R. Weisman (PublicAffairs, $35). The scholar (former professor of education and urban politics), adviser, …
Issue: January-February 2011
Winthrop Bell: Harvard Philosopher, MI6 Spy, and Early Forecaster of the Holocaust
… was a handsome, blond, blue-eyed philosopher, prisoner of war, and MI6 spy. An athletic outdoorsman, he had survived arduous employment as a surveyor in the wilds of northern Canada before coming to Harvard. But … fighting communism, while others worked to block America’s rise to power. Still, Bell succeeded in showing important …
Issue: March-April 2024
Behind the Scenes: Ask a Harvard Professor Podcast
… was nervous . As a writer, I’ve been asking scholars about their research for a decade and a half now, and I knew these … two scholars already—I’d spent hours speaking with each of them for “The Mystery of Smell,” one of our November-December features. But …
Y Is for “Yell”
… How do we make sense of a row of typographic squiggles on a page? “The process of reading lies at the heart of our most …
Issue: November-December 2010
The Lit City
… rent-controlled apartment/artist’s studio in Manhattan to the Harvard Club to play squash. His work had already been … While crossing a street, Reist looked up and spotted a rooftop water tower, bathed in the sunset’s orange light. He … ). But Reist, who in 2002 moved upstate to the town of Peekskill, says that the particular urban settings of his …
Issue: January-February 2014
Off the Shelf
… What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, by Michael J. Sandel, Bass … wanderings by casual photographer Charles Cushman, comprise an amateur visual history in the best sense of the …
Issue: July-August 2012
Off the Shelf
… The People’s Courts: Pursuing Judicial Independence in America , by Jed Shugerman, assistant professor of law (Harvard, $35). At a time when judges are objects of …
Issue: March-April 2012