Montage
Faith through Film
The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies
by Max J. Krupnick
Off the Shelf
Operatic counterculture, a Passover graphic novel, James Joyce’s biographer, and more
The Shape of Sound
Jessica Shand blends math and music.
by Nina Pasquini
The Sum of Our Choices
On the limitations of a prevailing worldview
A New Voice
Ann Kim Ha’s poignant children’s books
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Chinese in America
Michael Luo ’98 on the first great wave of immigration—and of nativist anti-immigrant reaction
Off the Shelf
Artmaking under duress, designing the UN HQ, Booker White’s blues, and more
Cruel and Unjust
A legal scholar’s harsh assessment of the Supreme Court’s rulings on crime
by Lincoln Caplan
Banned in Sparta
Millennia-old Greek lyrics ring out again in twenty-first-century pop music.
by Craig Lambert
Leslie Jamison’s Many Selves
The essayist on isolation, empathy, and selfhood
by Nina Pasquini
Harvard Sculptor Justin Peyser
Probing the concepts of territory and sanctuary.
by Lydialyle Gibson