Montage

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.

Jimmy Tingle holding a microphone and performing on stage

Comedy with a Conscience

Jimmy Tingle’s political humor in a polarized era

by Craig Lambert

Susan Rubin Suleiman with her parents in 1949; her mother is wearing the silver pin discussed in the book excerpt.

Pinned in Memory

Susan Rubin Suleiman’s memoir of a life in Nazi Hungary—and after

Screenwriter Julian Breece working with a colleague on set

Finding the Movie

Screenwriter Julian Breece on “writing from the soul”

by Lydialyle Gibson

An older couple standing in a large room filled with pianos

Attuned to Pianos

An instrument restorer’s beautiful obsession

by Lydialyle Gibson

Illustration of Emily Dickinson talking to tech support

Emily Dickinson—Dashed

Alexandra Petri introduces the poet to tech support for help with her keyboard.

Design at water’s edge: photograph of the multipurpose Elbphilharmonie, on the River Elbe, Hamburg (2016)

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

portrait of Wendell Steavenson

From War Zones to the North Shore

A new novel from foreign correspondent Wendell Steavenson

by Lydialyle Gibson

Do You Believe in Magic?

Former practicing magician Dan Droz ’72 turns his tricks into a career in sculpture

by Nancy Walecki

Republican or Early Imperial Roman relief of the Greek playwright Menander, 100 BCE-early first century CE

The Case for Cultural Appropriation

How humans hybridize their civilizations

by Adam Kirsch

Restored to Nature

Landscape architect Mikyoung Kim’s healing arts

by Lydialyle Gibson