Montage

On the Margins

Filmmaker John Armstrong’s “outdoor adventures” find the human spirit.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Off the Shelf: Recent Books with Harvard Connections

Tax follies, Thomas Sowell, Donald Hall, and more

A Surfing Author’s Children’s Book

In the swim with Bonnie Tsui

by S.I. Rosenbaum

Under Review: Tony Saich on Chinese Communism at 100

The first century of the Chinese Communist Party—and what impends

Open Book: The Case for Commitment

Pete Davis expands on his Commencement address.

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

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

A Life in Harmonica

Scott Albert Johnson finds his path.

by Jacob Sweet