Montage
Faith through Film
The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies
by Max J. Krupnick
Reality Fiction
Elif Batuman’s novel The Idiot reflects on her Harvard freshman year.
by Madeleine Schwartz
Harmonic Progression
Composer Robert Kyr embraces love, peace, and nature.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Off the Shelf
Wordsworth seen anew, and other recent books
Holding Emotion “At an Observer's Distance”
Adam Kirsch reviews Megan Marshall’s biography of poet Elizabeth Bishop.
by Adam Kirsch
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Happy Misanthrope
A playwright making those overlooked by history into lore
by Olivia Schwob
A Conservative Counterrevolution
The anti-democratic origins of the Constitution
by Lincoln Caplan
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
The Lawyer Librettist
In the “final phase” of her life, Cerise Lim Jacobs builds herself an oeuvre.
by Sophia Nguyen