Montage
Dollar Dramas
The preeminence of U.S. currency at risk
The “Harvard Novel” Enters the Twenty-first Century
On Elif Batuman’s fictions
by Beth Blum
Straight Lines and Odd Angles
Painter Judith Seligson’s creative juxtapositions
by Lydialyle Gibson
Sargent’s Other Sides
A revealing new biography of John Singer Sargent
Celeste Ng debuts new novel
“Our Missing Hearts” embodies the author’s hope that storytelling can be an agent of change.
by Nancy Walecki
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
The Nature of Archives
Installation artist Kapwani Kiwanga on power, resistance, and plants
by Salomé Gómez-Upegui
Where We Went Wrong
A sweeping history of society and the economy in the twentieth century
Truer than Reality
Kevin Kallaugher on the art of editorial cartooning
by Dan Kelly
“Fallen to the Depths”
Nicholas Dawidoff’s wrenching account of urban inequity
Freedom from Food
A lifelong struggle with body image led Juna Gjata to podcasting.
by Jacob Sweet