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Open Book: A New Nuclear Age
Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy’s latest book looks at the rising danger of a new arms race.
Voicings: John Adams
The celebrated Nixon in China (1987) by composer John Adams ’69, A.M. ’72, was the first of four operas that, along with many...
Sexy Struts
Start with a stance that points the heel of one foot toward the middle of the other. Stand up tall, your back slightly arched. Stride forward...
Chapter & Verse
~Who proclaimed that photography is to painting as water is to wine? ~Who protested, “They have taken away all our liberties—now...
Jete Propelled
Heather Watts says that she prepared for teaching her Harvard course, “George Balanchine: Ballet Master,” the same way she used to...
Off the Shelf
A Natural History of North American Trees, by Donald Culross Peattie ’22, illustrated by Paul Landacre (Houghton Mifflin, $40). This is a...
Flexible Movies
“You never see cartoons where there are bad outcomes,” says Michelle Crames, M.B.A. ’03, founder and CEO of Lean Forward Media...
Twin Passions
Both these elegant little books on science and religion are by eminent Harvard professors emeriti—much-revered researchers, writers, and...
An Earlier Bid for Mastery
New genetic knowledge may let us manipulate our nature: beef up our muscles, brush up our memory, make designer children. What’s wrong...
Joculor, Ergo Sum
From their freshman year in college they were inseparable pals, once called “the Mutt and Jeff of post-Kantian idealism.” That...
Avant-Garde Incubator
The blip festival may be unfamiliar to you, but for lovers of “low-bit music,” it’s the world’s premier event. Late last...