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Illustration of a tilted dollar bill with George Washington’s face, partially submerged in ocean waves under cloudy skies.

Montage | July-August 2025

Dollar Dramas

The preeminence of U.S. currency at risk

Portrait photograph of Maggie Shipstead

Montage | May-June 2021

“Like Driving at Night”

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

by Dan Kelly

Photograph of earth scientist Andrew Knoll at work in the field

Montage | May-June 2021

Transitions Gradual and Cataclysmic

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

by Jonathan Shaw

Head and torso of a man painted by Michelangelo on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

Montage | March-April 2021

Attention to Detail

Nicholas Callaway publishes the Sistine Chapel in closeup.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Historic photograph of heap of fabric scraps

Montage | March-April 2021

“Shoddy”: The Noun

“From Devil’s Dust to the Renaissance of Rags”—a surprising account of scrap

Montage | March-April 2021

Rather Psychologically Peculiar

Reinterpreting the distinctive psychology of the human West

Photograph of author Justin Deabler

Montage | March-April 2021

A Lone Star Saga

Fiction about “the power that comes to us when we uncloset ourselves”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Historic images of Francis Drake and Elizabeth I, who feature in a new book by Laurence Bergreen

Montage | March-April 2021

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Montage | March-April 2021

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Photo of a cheerleader group composed of elderly women, all in red tops and white skirts, with pompoms

Montage | March-April 2021

When Fantasy Isn’t Enough

Documentarian Lance Oppenheim explores life in The Villages.

by Alex Huls

Photograph of a giant cuttlefish, “Sepia apama,” at Cabbage Tree Bay, Australia: among Peter Godfrey-Smith’s subjects for his research on cognition

Montage | January-February 2021

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections