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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.

Photograph of the Lincoln Memorial

Open Book

Michael Ignatieff on Abraham Lincoln on solace

Celia Pym at work with a needle and thread

Damage and Repair

Textile artist Celia Pym knits meaning into mended clothes.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Photo of anti-vaccination protest, Los Angeles, October 12, 2021

Professor Steven Pinker on Thinking Straight

An excerpt from the preface of Pinker’s 2022 book Rationality

From Punk to the Silver Screen

The ingenious, intuitive film scores of Carter Burwell ’77

by Nicolas Rapold

World War II domestic propaganda posters urge civilian compliance with rationing

War, Misremembered

Elizabeth Samet, of West Point, reinterprets the American understanding of World War II.

Rudy Ruiz

Border Crossing

Author Rudy Ruiz carries on his Mexican-American family’s storytelling tradition.

by Nancy Walecki

Portrait of Harvard Law professor and author Randall Kennedy

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Illustration showing U.S. flag pulled different directions by an oligarch and ordinary citizens

A Democracy of Opportunity

Liberals must learn from conservatives how to interpret the Constitution in all its dimensions.

by Lincoln Caplan

Jason Bouldin at work on a painting in his studio

The Art of the Portrait Painter

Jason Bouldin makes the intangible tangible.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Photo of President Donald Trump and Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett

Supreme Court Brinkmanship

Linda Greenhouse on the 2020-2021 Supreme Court—and the changes to come