Montage
On the Margins
Filmmaker John Armstrong’s “outdoor adventures” find the human spirit.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Off the Shelf
Recent books about Iraq, academic writing, John Singer Sargent, “eldercide,” and more
A More Generous, Capacious America
The expansive literary scholarship of Werner Sollors
by Christoph Irmscher
A Model City
Fred Gevalt’s astonishing and intricate diorama
by Craig Lambert
Off the Shelf
Books about the art and science of eating, on being Zen, helping youngsters grow up, and more
Harvard, H.H.R., Houghton
Invaluable architectural archive published at last
by John S. Rosenberg
A Fictional Century
A book about books—and the protagonist is the twentieth-century novel itself.
by Lydialyle Gibson
What You Can Say, Singing
Liv Redpath’s operatic trajectory
by Nina Pasquini
A Moral Victory
A new history of the Civil War's Battle of Antietam
Maps of the World
The surreal, artistic cartography of Darren Sears
by Lydialyle Gibson
Beyond the SAT
Nicholas Lemann on revising standardized testing to address real educational needs