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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.

Getting them while they’re young: tiny cigarette packs, meant for children to incorporate into their play with dolls or toy soldiers

"Golden Holocaust," by Robert N. Proctor, advocates the abolition of cigarettes

Robert Proctor’s Golden Holocaust urges abolition of cigarettes, the leading preventable cause of death.

Film director Mustapha Khan near his home and studio, in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge

Rocksteady film by director Mustapha Khan

Rocksteady, a film directed by Mustapha Khan '84, explores the culture of stock car races.

by Steve Potter

The 1931 Picasso painting <i>Nude, Green Leaves and Bust</i> being auctioned at Christie’s in 2010. The sale price of $106 million set a world record.

Brooke Lampley heads modern and impressionist art at Christie's

Brooke Lampley '02 heads modern and impressionist art at Christie's.

by Craig Lambert

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

David Scheffer in 1997 at the Nyanza massacre memorial site in Rwanda

Jacqueline Bhabha reviews David Scheffer's new book on war crimes tribunals

On the evolving system of international criminal justice

by Jacqueline Bhabha

Excerpt from "The Great Divergence" by Timothy Noah

Excerpt from The Great Divergence by Timothy Noah ’80

Anthony Amore at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, with empty frames that held venerable paintings before the 1990 theft

Art Security Expert Anthony Amore on the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist

A new book shatters myths about art theft.

by David Menconi

The “Enemy Alien Menace” looms over lower Manhattan: The <i>New York Herald,</i> March 28, 1918; cartoon by W.A. Rogers

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

The cover image reproduces a sacred scene in a sacred landscape: “Radha and Krishna Walk in a Flowering Grove,” Kota Master, 18th century

Diana Eck on Hindus' sacred geography India

Diana Eck on Hindus' sacred geography

The only known photograph of the Rufus Buck gang, taken in the summer of 1895 in Indian Territory. Buck is in the middle.

Leonce Gaiter's Western novel describes violence in 1890s Indian Territory

A gritty Western depicts a brief, violent crusade.

by Craig Lambert