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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.

Opera director Sarah Meyers, profiled by Jennifer Gersten

Opera director Sarah Meyers doesn’t want you to notice everything.

by Jennifer Gersten

Robert Coles and Atul Gawande on William Carlos Williams

Two Harvard doctors on William Carlos Williams

Shane McCrae: the poet and his work

The propulsive intensity of Shane McCrae’s poetry

by Lydialyle Gibson

Excerpt from “Scale & the Incas”

Questions about how societies conceptualize, perceive, and interpret scale.

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

From academia to art: profile of Nell Painter

Nell Painter reflects on leaving the ivory tower for art school at age 64.

by Olivia Schwob

Excerpt from “Not Quite Not White” by Sharmila Sen

A “first-gen” American explores race and assimilation in the United States.

“The Black Clown” by Langston Hughes is set to music

An oratorio adapted from Langston Hughes

by Sophia Nguyen