Faith through Film

The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies

by Max J. Krupnick

A Gate of Whimsy

At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard

by Jacob Sweet

Attention to Detail

Nicholas Callaway publishes the Sistine Chapel in closeup.

by Lydialyle Gibson

A Lone Star Saga

Fiction about “the power that comes to us when we uncloset ourselves”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Curator of American Culture

Radhika Jones at the helm of Vanity Fair

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Picturing America

“Robert Frank: The Americans,” at the Addison Gallery of American Art

by Nell Porter-Brown

See Their Faces

Confronting “some of the most challenging images in the history of photography”

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

“To Break Our Own Rules”

Poet-critic Dan Chiasson and The Math Campers

by Lydialyle Gibson

Family History

A German American scholar is unsettled by an ancestor’s secret.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Artful Gifts

Holiday gifts that support the arts

by Nell Porter-Brown