Montage
Dollar Dramas
The preeminence of U.S. currency at risk
Holding Emotion “At an Observer's Distance”
Adam Kirsch reviews Megan Marshall’s biography of poet Elizabeth Bishop.
by Adam Kirsch
The Lawyer Librettist
In the “final phase” of her life, Cerise Lim Jacobs builds herself an oeuvre.
by Sophia Nguyen
Bare-Knuckle Politics
Contentious American democracy—in a new case-method history book
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 Art of Protest
“It doesn’t even make sense to me that art and protest would be separate.”
by Lydialyle Gibson
Outside In
The director of Head Over Heels and The Star, on animation's different dimensions
by Sophia Nguyen
Bruegel’s Art of Mass Appeal
Crowd painting that attracts crowds.