An Original Magna Carta, Hidden in Plain Sight

A rare original surfaces at Harvard at an “almost providential” moment. 

by Nina Pasquini

Glorious “Genji”

A magnificent set of images, published—and exhibited

Chapter and Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

A Millennial Mystery

…and a possible clue in the stacks

by Diane E. Booton

The Juggler’s Tale

A Dumbarton Oaks exhibition connects “an enchanted past” to the human condition.

by Sophia Nguyen

Coming Apart Together

The propulsive intensity of Shane McCrae’s poetry

by Lydialyle Gibson

The Weight of Scale

Questions about how societies conceptualize, perceive, and interpret scale.

The Devil and Philip Johnson

A “star-chitect” as P.T. Barnum

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Photography in Baldwin’s Era

Eighteen photographers capture the 1930s through the 1980s.

by Brandon J. Dixon

Millicent Todd Bingham

Brief life of an unlikely Dickinson scholar

by Julie Dobrow