Montage
On the Margins
Filmmaker John Armstrong’s “outdoor adventures” find the human spirit.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Medicine Minus Mythmaking
Two Harvard doctors on William Carlos Williams
Coming Apart Together
The propulsive intensity of Shane McCrae’s poetry
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Weight of Scale
Questions about how societies conceptualize, perceive, and interpret scale.
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Recent books with Harvard connections
The Devil and Philip Johnson
A “star-chitect” as P.T. Barnum
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
Painter, Anew
Nell Painter reflects on leaving the ivory tower for art school at age 64.
by Olivia Schwob
“I Got Race”
A “first-gen” American explores race and assimilation in the United States.
“Little Shards of Dissonance”
An oratorio adapted from Langston Hughes
by Sophia Nguyen
True Lies
Jill Lepore excavates the history of America, down to its bedrock values.
by Casey N. Cep
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections