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Black and white photo of a large mushroom cloud rising above the horizon.

Open Book: A New Nuclear Age

Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy’s latest book looks at the rising danger of a new arms race.

Elif Batuman

The “Harvard Novel” Enters the Twenty-first Century

On Elif Batuman’s fictions

by Beth Blum

Restored to Nature

Landscape architect Mikyoung Kim’s healing arts

by Lydialyle Gibson

Conflicting cultures in Africa: “The Missionary burns the House of a Witch,” ca. 1750, from the book, Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola

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Recent books with Harvard connections

A collection of abstract geometric paintings hang above a white couch

Straight Lines and Odd Angles

Painter Judith Seligson’s creative juxtapositions

by Lydialyle Gibson

John Singer Sargent self-portrait, 1892

Sargent’s Other Sides

A revealing new biography of John Singer Sargent

Celeste Ng

Celeste Ng debuts new novel

“Our Missing Hearts” embodies the author’s hope that storytelling can be an agent of change.

by Nancy Walecki

Late-winter thunderstorm atop snow in New England, February 2014

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Portrait of Kapwani Kiwanga

The Nature of Archives

Installation artist Kapwani Kiwanga on power, resistance, and plants

by Salomé Gómez-Upegui

Portrait of John Kenneth Galbraith

Where We Went Wrong

A sweeping history of society and the economy in the twentieth century

A black and white cartoon shows a computer-user, with Earth’s globe for a head, stares into a screen, while spiders labeled “hate,” “misinformation,” “fear,” and “lies” crawl across his body, wrapping him in their webs.

Truer than Reality

Kevin Kallaugher on the art of editorial cartooning

by Dan Kelly