Montage
Faith through Film
The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies
by Max J. Krupnick
On Unintended Consequences
Essayist Edward Tenner on technology’s pitfalls
Justice and “Despair”
A critical analysis of “settler colonialism”
Gathering Strings
Harpist Elisabeth Remy Johnson’s extended reach
by Lydialyle Gibson
Growing Pains
Actor and filmmaker Jacob Roberts’s Gen Z sensibility
by Nina Pasquini
Off the Shelf
Recent books about Iraq, academic writing, John Singer Sargent, “eldercide,” and more
A More Generous, Capacious America
The expansive literary scholarship of Werner Sollors
by Christoph Irmscher
A Model City
Fred Gevalt’s astonishing and intricate diorama
by Craig Lambert
Off the Shelf
Books about the art and science of eating, on being Zen, helping youngsters grow up, and more
Harvard, H.H.R., Houghton
Invaluable architectural archive published at last
by John S. Rosenberg
A Fictional Century
A book about books—and the protagonist is the twentieth-century novel itself.
by Lydialyle Gibson