Arts & Culture
Veteran MIT Administrator Named University Secretary
Suzanne Glassburn will manage the work of the Corporation and Board of Overseers.
by Jonathan Shaw
Art as Chattel
James Cuno reviews Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures, by Cynthia Saltzman
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alex Ross Wins MacArthur
Music critic Alex Ross ’90 has just been named a MacArthur Fellow for his encyclopedic first book...
Pulitzer Gift of Art Works and $45 Million Boosts Harvard Art Museum
Culminating her lifelong devotion to art collecting, connoisseurship, and scholarship—and a matching engagement with the University—Emily Rauh Pulitzer, A.M.
Faust Book a Contender for National Book Award
This Republic of Suffering is among the finalists in the nonfiction category...
The Mailer-Buckley Connection
The late Norman Mailer ’43, a prolific and pugnacious author, apparently wrote a lot of letters to go with his many published works—some 50,000 letters archived by Michael Lennon, according to The New Yorker...
Tall Tales
Arianne Cohen ’03—a onetime Harvard Magazine Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow— is publishing a second book—The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life on High, which promises "a fascinating and informative look into the world of tall people"...
Straw and Sustainability
In “The Three Little Pigs,” the big, bad wolf huffs and puffs and easily blows down the first piglet’s straw house.
by Craig Lambert
Seriously Funny
Ian Frazier combines an historian's discipline with an original comic mind...
by Craig Lambert
Works and Woods
Architecture and ecology in Japan...
by Paul Gleason