Montage
Faith through Film
The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies
by Max J. Krupnick
Avant-garde, Post-Romantic
Hannah Lash’s personal, yet crystalline, music
by Thomas Vinciguerra
Paradoxical Fables
Ben Loory's minimalist stories ambush the reader.
by David Updike
Brotherly Love
In Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History, George Howe Colt offers autobiography and biography both.
Mosaic for Now
A contemporary take on an ancient medium
by Craig Lambert
The Queen of Versailles
A documentary film turns a lens on the “1 percenters.”
by Laura Levis
Bluffer-in-Chief
In Evan Thomas's new biography, President Eisenhower emerges as a canny nuclear strategist.
Arts Imbalance
Peter Agoos ’75 brightened Boston’s public art scene this summer.
Off the Shelf
Recent books by John Updike, Marjorie Garber, George Vaillant, Thomas McGraw, and others with Harvard connections
Vegan Hedonism
Plant-based pleasure with spirit and sizzle
by Betsy Block
“Absolutely Beautiful”
The geometric works of sculptor Morton C. Bradley