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Black and white photo of a large mushroom cloud rising above the horizon.

Open Book: A New Nuclear Age

Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy’s latest book looks at the rising danger of a new arms race.

Elisabeth Remy Johnson playing a harp on stage, wearing a blue dress, with stage lights softly glowing in the background.

Harvard Harpist Creates Album of Women's Compositions

Harpist Elisabeth Remy Johnson’s extended reach

by Lydialyle Gibson

Jacob Roberts in the film Half, wearing a blue T-shirt outdoors, looking directly at the camera.

"Rent Free" and Gen Z: Harvard Alum Jacob Roberts on Filmmaking, Gig Culture, and Growing Up

Actor and filmmaker Jacob Roberts’s Gen Z sensibility

by Nina Pasquini

Ancient ruins with tall columns and a blue sky in the background, at Hatra, Nineveh Province, Iraq

Recent Books with Harvard Connections January 2024

Recent books about Iraq, academic writing, John Singer Sargent, “eldercide,” and more

Werner Sollors seated on a couch with ornate wall designs in the background, wearing glasses and a dark sweater.

Redefining Race as Ethnicity

The expansive literary scholarship of Werner Sollors

by Christoph Irmscher

Frank Gevalt standing beside his detailed model city "Port Charles," featuring buildings, bridges, and an urban skyline.

From Harvard-Trained Architect to Miniature Diorama Builder

Fred Gevalt’s astonishing and intricate diorama

by Craig Lambert

Recent Books with Harvard Connections: November-December 2024

Books about the art and science of eating, on being Zen, helping youngsters grow up, and more

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Henry Hobson Richardson: Architect of Harvard's Iconic Austin and Sever Halls

Invaluable architectural archive published at last

by John S. Rosenberg

Edwin Frank sits with stacks of books in the background

Edwin Frank Explores the 20th-Century Novel in 'Stranger Than Fiction'

A book about books—and the protagonist is the twentieth-century novel itself.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Liv Redpath performing onstage

Liv Redpath on “What You Can Say” Through Opera

Liv Redpath’s operatic trajectory

by Nina Pasquini

Union soldiers standing near the bodies of dead Confederate soldiers September 19, 1862, on Miller farm.

The Battle of Antietam: America's Deadliest Day and Its Impact on the Civil War

A new history of the Civil War's Battle of Antietam