Montage
Faith through Film
The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies
by Max J. Krupnick
Underground Party
Commuters making their way through the underground corridors of the sprawling Times Square subway station in Manhattan now have some...
Off the Shelf
Yeltsin: A Life, by Timothy J. Colton, Feldberg professor of government and Russian studies (Basic Books, $35). A monumental biography of the...
Freeing Speech
Anthony Lewis’s Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment offers a lucid and engaging overview of American...
Solar Sculptor
Michael Kapetan’s sundials don’t do “clock time”...
by Cara Feinberg
Chapter & Verse
Michael Comenetz asks if the phrase “Galloping Gordon,” sometimes applied to British prime minister Gordon Brown, originated with...
Sleuths in Love
Screenwriter turned novelist Eric Lerner ’71 finds his voice...
by Craig Lambert
A Scatter of Acorns
Excerpt from Nicholas Dawidoff ’85 memoir The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball...
Two Centuries of Sound
Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra: celebrating a fabled orchestra’s origins...
Postmodern Medicine
We are all “medical citizens,” embedded as potential or actual patients, with physicians, in a system of social, moral, and...
Past the Peak
Nearly 50 years after declaring their independence, Americans were electrified by the triumphant return of the Marquis de Lafayette, eager to...