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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.

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Recent books with Harvard connections

An Argument for Music

Critic Alex Ross keeps "classical" music current...

by Paul Gleason

Two Musical Neighborhoods

Harvard professor Lewis Lockwood and the Julliard String Quartet have collaborated on Inside Beethoven's Quartets: History, Performance, Interpretation...

Anthologizing Yourself

Mary Jo Salter keeps her own (and others') poetry alive...

by Paul Gleason

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words...

Mother and son, and creator: Eisa Davis with Daniel Breaker, The Youth, and rock musician Stew, who is <em>Passing Strange's </em>Narrator.

Thoroughly Eclectic

Performer Eisa Davis, now starring on Broadway in Passing Strange, stays open to her many artistic passions, including playwriting (Bulrusher, Angela's Mixtape) and singing (her devut album is Something Else)...

by Julia Wallace

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Recent books with Harvard connections...

Herschenfeld as Butt, a mechanical bird, in Charles Wuorinen's <em>Haroun</em> and the <em>Sea of Stories</em>.

From Soaps to Solos

Operatic bass Ethan Herschenfeld sings around the world, but also enjoys acting on TV (Damages)...

by Daniela Amini

Underground Party

Commuters making their way through the underground corridors of the sprawling Times Square subway station in Manhattan now have some...

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Yeltsin: A Life, by Timothy J. Colton, Feldberg professor of government and Russian studies (Basic Books, $35). A monumental biography of the...