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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.

John Huth navigating through a rock slot of Placentia Island in coastal Maine

“The Lost Art of Finding Our Way” by John Edward Huth reviewed by Isabel Ruane

Navigating the smartphone world

by Isabel Ruane

In his old haunts: novelist André Aciman in the center of Harvard Square

Novelist André Aciman's Harvard Square explores expats' experiences

A café-goers' view of Cambridge, a generation ago

by Jesse Kornbluth

The “hot border” in summer

Ilona Bell cultivates a literary garden in the Berkshires

A Berkshire yard that recalls poetry, fiction, and drama

by Craig Lambert

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Distinguished couple: Professor Louis Agassiz, ever the scientist, ever the creationist, despite the evidence for Darwinian evolution, and Elizabeth (Cary) Agassiz, who emerges impressively from the last chapter of this new biography

Christoph Irmscher biography of Louis Agassiz reviewed by James Hanken

The fruitful, flawed Louis Agassiz

by James Hanken

Alexander Wilson’s colorful craft: a fanciful collection of waterfowl, from Harvard’s archives

Recent books by E.O. Wilson, Ezekiel Emanuel, Elliott Abrams, and more

Recent books with Harvard connections

Filmmaker Julie Mallozzi intercut scenes of Lalita Bharvani at home, tending to her garden or doing yoga, with startling images of x-rays and medical tests, including an echocardiogram. One poignant scene shows Bharvani visiting her elderly mother in India.

Julie Mallozzi's film Indelible Lalita tells a medical and spiritual story

Indelible Lalita’s saga of pigmentation and personhood

by Laura Levis

Independence Day, 1942: the first field test of napalm, behind Harvard Business School

History of napalm origins at Harvard

A new book traces napalm's invention to Harvard—and its evolution from heroic discovery to pariah

The writer at work: Soman Chainani in his Brooklyn apartment

Soman Chainani's new fantasy-adventure novel is a fairy tale for today’s world

A fairy tale for today’s world

"Mastermind," Maria Konnikova's how-to book on perceiving like Sherlock Holmes

The "Literally Psyched" columnist on Sherlock Holmes, perception, and mental prowess