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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.

Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Animator Tim Reckart and the art of stop-motion acting

The director of Head Over Heels and The Star, on animation's different dimensions

by Sophia Nguyen

Open Book: Bruegel’s Crowd Paintings

Crowd painting that attracts crowds.

Profile of poet Jean Valentine

Poet Jean Valentine on literary companionship

by Lydialyle Gibson

Recent books with Harvard Connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

Fusion fantasy: a profile of translator and fiction writer Ken Liu

Ken Liu’s hybrid fiction crosses oceans and galaxies.

by Sophia Nguyen

James Kloppenberg's masterwork on democracy reviewed

Reviewing a masterwork on the past, and future, of democracy

Radcliffe alumna Judith Brodsky, on printmaking and risk-taking

From the beginning, artist and advocate Judith Brodsky felt “pulls in different directions.”

by Violet Baron

"The biggest mystery": Nicholas Britell, on scoring "Big Short," "Seventh Fire"

A film composer's career, from annotating Sneakers to doing “archaeology” for 12 Years a Slave

by Sophia Nguyen

Bee hunting with Thomas D. Seeley: an excerpt from "Following the Wild Bees"

Thomas D. Seeley on the craft and science of bee hunting