Montage

On the Margins

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

by Lydialyle Gibson

A New Story of Suffrage

Fresh portraits of U.S. foot soldiers for women’s right to vote

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Misguided Mind Fixers

A history of psychiatry’s troubled search for the biology of mental illness

Chapter and Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Fiction from Fairy Tales

The continuing appeal of novelist Rachel Ingalls

by Olivia Munk

Entering a New World

Navigating the challenges of caring for a child who is very ill

Remaking the Grid

Paolo Pasco and the art of making crosswords

by Oset Babür

An Empiricist on Art

Unpacking “what art does to us”

Funny Because It’s True

Showrunner David Mandel guides the final season of Veep—and finds himself politicized.

by S.I. Rosenbaum

The Memorable Eccentric

An idiosyncratic new biography of Edward Gorey

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections