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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.

Reviving Black Classical Music

Pianist Gerry Bryant highlights black composers.

by Max J. Krupnick

Photographic portrait of Virginia Woolf

Shakespeare’s Uncanny Presence

Marjorie Garber explores the bard’s influence on the Bloomsbury Group.

Inclusive Design, Incisive Art

Amy Yoshitsu’s vision for change

by Claire Zulkey

Andrew Shtulman illustrates imagination with an image of children riding a cloud as if it were a horse.

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Painting, The storming of the Bastille and arrest of the Governor M. de Launay, July 14, 1789, artist unknown

How Revolutions Happen

Robert Darnton on the origins of the French Revolutionary temperament

Amir Bitran

Making Music Out of DNA Loops

Composer and biophysicist Amir Bitran ’16, Ph.D. ’23

by Nancy Walecki

Illustration depicting blueprints of life, from a single cell to a whole human body

Life’s Blueprints

The development of developmental biology

by Jonathan Shaw

Stock photo, caring for patient in hospital bed

“Shotgun” Diagnosis

The virtues of inaction in delivering medical care

Anwar Floyd-Pruitt standing off a red, white, and blue mural he painted after George Floyd’s death. Floyd's right hand is bandaged after he was attacked while painting the mural.

Getting His Reps in

Anwar Floyd-Pruitt’s wildly profuse art

by Lydialyle Gibson

Illustration of housing outside a central city

State-Sponsored Discrimination

The role of zoing law and housing in making America more unequal—and what to do about it