Montage
Open Book: A New Nuclear Age
Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy’s latest book looks at the rising danger of a new arms race.
Off the Shelf
The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, translated by Norman R. Shapiro ’51, Ph.D. ’58 (University of Illinois, $80 cloth, $25...
The Presidents We Pick
James MacGregor Burns, Ph.D. ’47, Woodrow Wilson professor of government emeritus at Williams College, a distinguished scholar, gifted...
Unnerved by the Urge to Win
Paul Hoffman ’78 was a child chess prodigy and now, after a 25-year break from tournament chess, he has started playing again. He has...
Chapter & Verse
Editor’s note: “If anything can go wrong, it will,” officially identified as “Murphy’s Law” in our copy of...
The Actor Explores
In Moscow there are 200 theaters, and the drama students from Cambridge who study there can see plays every night in the company of impassioned...
Off the Shelf
I’ll Drink to That: Beaujolais and the French Peasant Who Made It the World’s Most Popular Wine, by Rudolph Chelminski ’56...
A Poet's Warning
In June 1946, Harvard celebrated its long-awaited Victory Commencement. For the first time since the end of the Second World War, alumni and...
by Adam Kirsch
Profile of Virginia Heffernan, TV and media writer for “The New York Times”
Not long ago, Virginia Heffernan, Ph.D. ’02, who writes about television and on-line media for the New York Times, got an e-mail from her...
Make the Arsenal Usable
In Henry Kissinger and the American Century (Harvard University Press, $27.95), Jeremi Suri examines why Henry Kissinger ’50, Ph.D...
An Imperial American
Lincoln Kirstein ’30 combined a ferocious intelligence with manic energy, a belief that there was nothing he could not do, and a...