Montage
On the Margins
Filmmaker John Armstrong’s “outdoor adventures” find the human spirit.
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Harvard Center for Gastrophysics?
Harvard science labs and master chef Ferran Adrià confect a mutually beneficial partnership.
by Elizabeth Gudrais
The Alcotts, Père and Fille
John Matteson, who left the law to pursue literature, won a Pulitzer Prize for Eden’s Outcasts, his double biography of Bronson and Louisa May Alcott.
by Julia Wallace
From Literature to the Lab
In this excerpt from his new book, The Art and Politics of Science, Nobel laureate Harold Varmus reflects on his switch from graduate work in English to medical school.
On Judicial Interpretation
Paul M. Barrett reviews The Invisible Constitution, by Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe.
by Paul M. Barrett
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Second-Life Photography
A profile of cultural photographer Lee Smith
by Craig Lambert
A Scourge Remembered
A new film by G. Wayne Miller looks back to a time when tuberculosis gripped America.
by Elizabeth Gudrais
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Imagining the Past
Sara Houghteling’s first novel, Pictures at an Exhibition, tells the story of a young man who searches post-war Paris for both his lost love and his father’s stolen art collection.
by Paul Gleason
Before the Cocktail Napkin
In this excerpt from her new book, Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture, Cammy Brothers discusses how the artist demonstrated the possibility for architecture to be a vehicle for the imagination equal to painting or sculpture.