Montage
Faith through Film
The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies
by Max J. Krupnick
The Tensions That Roiled Texas
Annette Gordon-Reed on the real history of Texas, and Juneteenth
Finding Voices
Marilyn Booth translates Arabic literature for Anglophone readers.
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Not Just “Office Helpers”
From a huge new book on the history of information, an excerpt on the role of secretaries
“Like Driving at Night”
Maggie Shipstead’s time-spanning, globe-circling new novel
by Dan Kelly
Transitions Gradual and Cataclysmic
Andrew Knoll on the planet’s past—and fraught future
by Jonathan Shaw
Attention to Detail
Nicholas Callaway publishes the Sistine Chapel in closeup.
by Lydialyle Gibson
“Shoddy”: The Noun
“From Devil’s Dust to the Renaissance of Rags”—a surprising account of scrap
Rather Psychologically Peculiar
Reinterpreting the distinctive psychology of the human West
A Lone Star Saga
Fiction about “the power that comes to us when we uncloset ourselves”
by Lydialyle Gibson