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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.
The Sum of Our Choices
On the limitations of a prevailing worldview
Children's Books from Ann Kim Ha
Ann Kim Ha’s poignant children’s books
Chinese Immigrants in Early America
Michael Luo ’98 on the first great wave of immigration—and of nativist anti-immigrant reaction
Recent Publications Harvard Authors Spring 2025
Artmaking under duress, designing the UN HQ, Booker White’s blues, and more
The Supreme Court and Mass Incarceration
A legal scholar’s harsh assessment of the Supreme Court’s rulings on crime
Works by Archaic Greek Poets Set to Music
Millennia-old Greek lyrics ring out again in twenty-first-century pop music.
Leslie Jamison on Isolation, Empathy, and Selfhood
The essayist on isolation, empathy, and selfhood
Harvard Sculptor Justin Peyser on Finding Sanctuary
Probing the concepts of territory and sanctuary.
Essays from Edward Tenner
Essayist Edward Tenner on technology’s pitfalls
The Ideology of Settler Colonialism and Israel-Palestine
A critical analysis of “settler colonialism”