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Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Maximalist
After a childhood spent playing the classics, cellist Matt Haimovitz has devoted himself to new music.
by Paul Gleason
Stinging the Dinosaurs
An excerpt from The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies, by Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson
Photos in Thread
Fabric artist Linda Liu Behar stitches embroideries atop her own photographs.
by Craig Lambert
Carpenter Center's Craftsman
A new book, Le Corbusier Le Grand, pulls together the career of Le Corbusier, with material on Harvard’s Carpenter Center.
by John S. Rosenberg
Art as Chattel
James Cuno reviews Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures, by Cynthia Saltzman
Straw and Sustainability
In “The Three Little Pigs,” the big, bad wolf huffs and puffs and easily blows down the first piglet’s straw house.
by Craig Lambert
"Anti-Dominant" Journal
A small home for good writing
by Paul Gleason
Felonious Mayhem
Enron and other capitalist calamities
"A Liar's Biography"
An art forger's success has less to do with his prowess as a visual artist than with his use and misuse of history.