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Open Book: A New Nuclear Age

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

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Putting the Music in Musical Theater

Composer Zoe Sarnak’s warm-hearted songs

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.

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

Secretaries’ role in history of information

From a huge new book on the history of information, an excerpt on the role of secretaries

Novelist Maggie Shipstead and “Great Circle”

Maggie Shipstead’s time-spanning, globe-circling new novel

by Dan Kelly

Andrew Knoll, “A Brief History of Earth,” reviewed by Jonathan Shaw

Andrew Knoll on the planet’s past—and fraught future

by Jonathan Shaw