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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.
Grolier Reincarnated
Tucked into a single room behind a window in Harvard Square, the Grolier Poetry Book Shop is to the world of bookselling what La Sainte...
High Art
Since its founding, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has commissioned artists to depict explorations of the upper...
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...
Passionate Concierge
Sophisticated counsel on what to read, view, and hear — just a keystroke away
Vulnerable Sculpture
Sculpture breaks free of the frames that confine paintings and drawings. Released into the wider world, sculptures may even inhabit the fourth...
Off the Shelf
What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat, by Louise Richardson, Ph.D. ’89, executive dean of the Radcliffe...
Neat Lawns, Nice Neighborhoods
This may make me a less than completely loyal Harvard alumnus, but I can’t help thinking of Geyser University Professor William Julius...
Chapter & Verse
Wayles Brown seeks to locate a story about a boy of English and Hindu parentage who encounters the word “Eurasian” and asks his...
Maestro Lenny
Leonard Bernstein ’39, D.Mus. ’67, will always be remembered as the conductor of the New York Philharmonic, but he was a native New...