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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.
Iambic Imbroglio
In 19 B.C., the Roman noblemen Varius and Tucca were given an extraordinary task: destroy the Aeneid. On his deathbed, Virgil asked his friends...
Walls of Power
Following the “decisive moment” tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Carlin Wing ’02 started out doing New York street photography...
Cultural Chaos
Forty years ago, millions of China’s urban youth rose up in response to the Great Helmsman’s call to “bombard the...
Ideas, Appassionato
Daniel Barenboim’s prodigious musical career has generated both acclaim and controversy. In September, the pianist and conductor...
Palace Indignities
Alexis Gregory ’57 is a collector of Renaissance and Baroque bronzes, a member of the Harvard University Art Museums Collections Committee...
A Lesson with Liv
The singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor was artist-in-residence in Lowell House from 2000 through September, participating in House life and...
The FOX News Channel News We Can Use
From an entry in The Republican Playbook (Hyperion, $16.95), containing all the schemes, scams, and dirty tricks used to achieve victory since...
Arriflex and Amber
At nightfall, the hyenas began to cry and laugh after we had eaten and were enjoying our recent successes in the art of nonfiction filmmaking...
Off the Shelf
Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence, by A.J. Langguth 55 (Simon & Schuster, $30). This gripping history of...
Chapter & Verse
Martha Neumann hopes to learn if Freud indeed made a comment often attributed to him: Immortality is being loved by many anonymous people. Ann...